Western Standard - July 28, 2026


Ottawa's $15M '2SLGBTI+' Ottawa monument launching in August


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00:00:00.000 What they're doing is projecting a continually unfolding series of grievances that need to be addressed through financial compensation and their word, reconciliation.
00:00:10.900 So this monument, this ostensible commemoration and memorialization of so-called victims and survivors of the so-called LGBT purge, this is unending.
00:00:21.260 Robert Krejcik here in Ottawa, Ontario, reporting for the Western Standard.
00:00:31.520 Behind my left shoulder, you'll see this partially constructed monument.
00:00:35.140 It is dubbed Thunderhead, and it is being marketed by the federal government,
00:00:40.180 which is paying for the construction of this monument as a commemoration, a memorialization,
00:00:45.820 for the so-called 2SLGBTQI plus community,
00:00:51.820 the cost of the construction of this Thunderhead monument
00:00:55.080 is estimated to be about $15 million.
00:00:58.440 That $15 million is coming from a broader package of money
00:01:02.800 known as the LGBT Purge Fund,
00:01:05.840 which was a $150 million settlement
00:01:08.740 in which the federal government of Canada
00:01:10.840 agreed to pay out class action plaintiffs,
00:01:14.100 primarily three, but there were others who joined on subsequently after it was filed in 2016,
00:01:19.440 to make compensation for what the federal government of Canada agreed was an unlawful
00:01:25.420 and unjustified discrimination against these supposed victims on the basis of their sexual
00:01:32.680 preferences and what they would describe as their gender identities. This park within which this
00:01:38.800 forthcoming Thunderhead monument is being constructed is basically as premium, as prime,
00:01:45.560 as expensive as real estate can get in Ottawa. It's right adjacent to the National Archives
00:01:51.180 Building, which itself is very proximate to the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill.
00:01:56.800 I want to share with you folks the specific language used by the government to market this
00:02:01.600 forthcoming monument and the broader LGBT purge fund apparatus within which it belongs. 0.77
00:02:08.800 So check this out. Generations of 2SLGBTQI plus people in Canada, and I want to invite the audience to consider whether or not that acronym has some sort of legitimacy in terms of describing a coherent group of people.
00:02:23.420 I'll tell you that it doesn't. Have been abused, excluded, and criminalized, which means they're entitled to compensation, by the way, because of who they are, who they love, and how they express and identify themselves. 0.86
00:02:34.120 Now, it's going to get very important here.
00:02:36.180 The Thunderhead Monument is being built here to recognize this historic discrimination.
00:02:40.660 Remember, discrimination is itself illegal.
00:02:44.060 And those who are victimized by it are entitled to financial compensation.
00:02:48.520 Celebrate the resilience of all queer and trans communities.
00:02:52.360 I'll invite the audience again to consider what is a queer community, what is a trans community.
00:02:56.860 Do those things exist? Obviously not. 1.00
00:02:58.960 And inspire the change still needed in Canada.
00:03:01.440 This is very important.
00:03:02.520 the change still needed in Canada. What they're doing is projecting a continually unfolding
00:03:09.880 series of grievances that need to be addressed through financial compensation and their word
00:03:15.820 reconciliation. So this monument, this ostensible commemoration and memorialization of so-called
00:03:22.500 victims and survivors of the so-called LGBT purge, this is unending. The lawsuit that was filed in
00:03:29.300 2016 alleging this discrimination involved three plaintiffs now remember the compensation settlement
00:03:36.580 was for 150 million dollars there's an important caveat here that this settlement allowed for
00:03:43.060 subsequent applicants for people to claim that they themselves were victimized by this supposed
00:03:49.700 so-called lgbt purge and from what i've seen according to public records about 100 people
00:03:56.100 filed and submitted their applications to receive some compensation before that
00:04:01.320 application window ended. It's not publicly known how many of those 100
00:04:06.860 people were approved and therefore awarded some share of compensation. This
00:04:12.000 administrative process I think was conducted by this accounting firm that
00:04:17.100 most are familiar with Deloitte. I'm walking under this tunnel right now that
00:04:22.220 that is adjacent to the forthcoming Thunderhead Monument.
00:04:25.360 And I want you folks to see behind me,
00:04:27.520 there's this thematic lighting
00:04:29.720 with these sort of rainbow colors,
00:04:31.140 which we know are associated
00:04:33.180 with what I'll call the LGBTQ enterprise.
00:04:35.980 Why am I using that term enterprise?
00:04:37.800 It's very important for you folks to remember
00:04:39.480 that there is a massive apparatus
00:04:41.200 behind this ideological campaign,
00:04:43.760 which is worth an incalculable amount of money.
00:04:47.760 This is so much bigger
00:04:48.940 than simply the $150 million settlement.
00:04:51.920 it goes into all aspects of government
00:04:54.480 and bleeds into many corporate enterprises as well.