Rachel McCormick, Consul General of Canada in Dallas. ‘LGBTQ rights are human rights’ is a Canadian value that its consul general brings to her post in Dallas DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com A few hours after release of the June 15 U.S.
Supreme Court decision affirming non-discrimination protections in employment based on sexual orientation and gender identity, I spoke to Rachel McCormick, Consul General of Canada in Dallas, who congratulated the U.S.
on the ruling. While Canada extended those rights to the LGBTQ community with an amendment to its Human Rights Act in 1996, there was no gloating over Canada’s much earlier recognition of universal equality or marriage equality.