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All that was happening even though Bill 10 doesn’t say a word about notification of parents. It didn’t seem necessary.

Then Kenney told Postmedia’s editorial board last spring that parents should be informed if their kids joined one of these support groups, unless the parents were abusive.

Eggen says that after that kids in GSAs felt less safe, and the rules appeared more uncertain.

Ace Peace, a transgender Calgary high school student, appeared at a news conference with Eggen. Peace had been worried about starting high school, then relieved to find it had a large and active GSA. He expressed gratitude for Eggen’s new bill.

Then this brave student added: “I don’t like politics.”

The rest of us are starting to wonder too, Ace. The whole controversy has become incredibly divisive.

The NDP is doing the right thing with the new legislation, I believe.

But the New Democrats are also using it to brand Kenney as an extremist even before he gets into the legislature. A party online ad casts Kenney as an enemy of students, teachers and parents.

Kenney usually responds with invective about the ideological, job-killing NDP, etc. There’s plenty of bile to go around.

As often happens with a social issue like GSAs, elected conservatives don’t quite know where to put themselves.

Every NDP and small-party MLA stood and applauded when Eggen introduced the legislation. No UCP member did, except Leela Aheer, who stayed in her seat and clapped.