Peggy Nash's gay politics
FEDERAL POLITICS / NDP leadership candidate was first to release series of queer priorities
Katie Toth / National / Friday, January 06, 2012

http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Peggy_Nashs_gay_politics-11325.aspx

As Canada's NDP leadership race heats up, Peggy Nash has brought her queer-positive politics to the forefront of the race. On Dec 11, Nash was the first of the candidates running to succeed Jack Layton to release a series of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans priorities.

The MP for Parkdale-High Park and former labour negotiator spoke with Xtra's Katie Toth about youth, anti-gay bullying, immigration law and the shifting economy.

Katie Toth: Do you want to start by telling people who don't know what your queer mandate is and a couple points of action you have?

Peggy Nash: Yeah, it's a policy I put out in my leadership campaign in December. One of my endorsers is Randall Garrison, who is our LGBT critic for the NDP. He worked with us on this policy.