OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via our website. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to an article about vendors withdrawing from the Orillia Fairgrounds Farmers’ Market, published Sept. 1.
I am shocked and appalled at the conduct of the vendors and community members contributing to this hate.
I am so disappointed to hear that the victims in this case have chosen to withdraw because, in my mind, the haters win. It goes without saying that I will be 100 per cent boycotting this farmers’ market, where I regularly come on a weekly basis to make purchases.
It is unfortunate that those who were the participants were not named because the vendors who have no part in this will also be victims. It is my hope that there will be many others that will boycott this market until this atrocious incident is properly dealt with.
It is incredible that in this day and age that there are still so many people with heads filled with misconceptions and a complete lack of understanding of the LGBT community at large.
And, in my opinion, they are not truly Canadian because it is pretty clear that that sort of discrimination is not meant to be part of our great country, as it is built into our Canadian human rights that this is not what we value here in this country. Shame on those of you masquerading as Canadians, who have a reputation worldwide as tolerant and polite people.
We have a right to be free of discrimination in our workplaces. Clearly, some people think that doesn’t apply to everyone. Shameful. Just shameful.
Valerie Verhey
Oro-Medonte
