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Premier Kathleen Wynne weighed in the “All Lives Matter” controversy in her first media scrum since Black Lives Matter protestors halted the Toronto Pride Parade earlier this month.

The phrase, which is often used to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement, cropped up this week when one of The Tenors altered the words to O Canada and held up a hand-scrawled sign with the phrase on it during Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game.

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Wynne, who is Canada’s first openly gay premier, equated the intent behind “All Lives Matter” to when straight people say, “well, I don’t get a parade,” in reference to the annual Pride celebrations around the world. She added she doesn’t know what was in the “young man’s head” when he lifted up his sign.

“I don’t know what he (the singer) was thinking,” she told reporters, “but I know what’s heard… is that you don’t understand what we’re saying.”

It’s like, when straight people have said to me in the past, ‘well, straight people don’t have a parade. Why don’t straight people have a parade? Everybody should be proud of who they are.’

“It’s like, when straight people have said to me in the past, ‘well, straight people don’t have a parade. Why don’t straight people have a parade? Everybody should be proud of who they are.’