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YORKTON, Saskatchewan, October 13, 2017 (JCCF) — The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF.ca) has made a formal request for the City of Yorkton to reverse its rejection of Parkland Right for Life’s application to have a “Right for Life” week.
On September 5, 2017, the president of Parkland Right for Life, Ted Deneschuk, requested to appear before Yorkton City Council and provide oral submissions in support of an application to have the City proclaim the week of October 1-7, 2017, as “Right for Life” week.
On September 6, 2017, City officials informed Mr. Deneschuk that the City had decided to deny his request. In a letter sent to Mr. Deneschuk on September 6, the City stated that his request was denied because a “Right for Life” week proclamation would contravene section 3.B.ii of the City’s Proclamation Policy. The Policy states that proclamations will not be issued for “(matters) of political controversy, ideological, or religious beliefs or individual, (sic) conviction”.
Notwithstanding the Proclamation Policy, the City has made a practice of issuing proclamations for subject which could be viewed as controversial, ideological and religious subjects. For example, the week of March 26-April 1, 2017, was
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