Canada, with the full endorsement of several top government officials, has forked out $1.2 billion to fund LGBTQI and reproductive health agendas on the nation’s children.
Among the beneficiaries of the funding is a gay lobby group that has been flagged as the same entity behind a controversial sex education course in children’s home 10 years ago.
The group promoted its ungodly agendas among vulnerable children with the help of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ).
The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities (CVC), had funded the introduction of the unauthorised sex-education material in six privately run children’s homes at the time, which prompted public outcry and condemnation from several groups in the island.
Fast forward 10 years, the nation’s children are again being targeted by the CVC which is currently in the process of implementing the Strengthening Access, Inclusion and Leadership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SAIL-SRHR) project funded by Canada. Several young persons participated in the latest peer educator training session executed by the entity in May. During the three-day training session in St. Thomas, the children were taught about sexual reproductive health and rights, stigma and discrimination, positive masculinity and human sexuality. Most global agencies such as the United Nations and international human rights organisations, consider abortion to be a reproductive health right. However, most Jamaicans have pushed back against attempts to make abortion legal. The freedom to choose one’s sexual orientation and to identify with one of several genders is also considered a reproductive and health right, and has sparked several protests internationally, given the Judeo-Christian worldview that there are only two sexes, man and woman.
Despite intense push back, those who support the LGBTQ agenda have been deceptively and openly implementing programmes, with government support, to change public perception about homosexuality.
Several of the adolescents who benefited from the recent CVC training session gave a verbal commitment to share the teachings with their peers.
CVC’s Technical Programme Officer with oversight for the SAIL-SRHR project, Andrea Campbell, noted that the peer educator sessions were being undertaken with adolescents in the southern and southeastern health regions in Jamaica. She said the participants were being trained as peer educators who are armed with information to guide their peers to make informed decisions.
“We also sought to empower them with correct information to put them in a position to dispel myths and misconceptions when they’re talking about sexual and reproductive health and human rights issues with their peers,” she said in a post on the CVC’s Facebook page.
Ivan Cruickshank who is the executive director of the CVC, was a part of the organisation’s senior management 10 years ago, when the controversial sex education teachings were being introduced to children in the homes. He is currently the chairperson for the board of directors for J-FLAG, which represents the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Jamaica. J-FLAG has been re-branded as Equality Ja.
“Our board and staff are committed to promoting social change, empowering the LGBT community, and building tolerance for and acceptance of LGBT people,” J-FLAG stated on its website.
Cruickshank was also among those present in November 2022, when Canada launched the SAIL-SRHR project as one of two programmes that would benefit from the $1.2 billion at its official residence in St. Andrew. SAILS-SRHR is targeted at adolescents and members of vulnerable communities, healthcare service providers, and educators amongst other groups in the society. Among those who expressed gratitude for the project were Gender Minister Olivia Grange, and Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn who was at the time, state minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness. National Parent Support Commission CEO, Kaysia Kerr, also gave her endorsement.
The SAILS-SRHR project is to end in 2027. Canadian partner Alinea International received approximately J$551.5 million to implement the project, which is being done in close partnership with the Jamaican Family Planning Association and the CVC.
There have been concerns about Canada’s mass investment in immoral agendas in Jamaica. Canada is considered to be a secular society, while Jamaica is a Christian nation. The country’s strong Christian sentiment has been blamed for the buggery law still being in place and abortion being a criminal offence.
“We ought to be concerned that our government has accepted billions of dollars from foreigners who wish to advance their ideas concerning sex, gender, and the value of human life, which are antithetical to the opinions of many Jamaicans and, in my opinion, are at odds with our culture and values,” president of the Love March Movement, Dr Daniel Thomas stated a week after Canada’s funding of the SAIL-SRHR project was announced.
“Sexual rights are LGBT rights, including same-sex marriage, homosexual adoption, gender transition surgeries, drag queen story hour in schools, boys in girls bathrooms, all of which are commonplace in Canada. Reproductive rights are abortion rights, and in Canada they are allowed to have abortions at any stage in the life of the foetus, and it’s taxpayer funded,” he pointed out.
