Ottawa warns LGBTQ travellers they could be hit by U.S. state laws

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Global Affairs Canada has updated its travel advisory for the United States by warning LGBTQ people that some state laws may affect them on their travels.

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"Every Canadian government, very much including our government, needs to put at the centre of everything we do the interests and the safety of every single Canadian, and of every single group of Canadians," she said. "That's what we're doing now. That's what we're always going to do." "We have professionals in the government whose job is to look carefully around the world and to monitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians," she said. "That's their job and it's the right thing to do."The American Civil Liberties Union says it is tracking 494 anti-LGBTQ bills in the U.S. that are working their way through state legislatures.

 

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