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http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/Vi...ame=qc_20041803
School board cancels blood drive
MONTREAL - Quebec's largest school board has voted to cancel Hema Quebec's annual blood drive at its Montreal offices and will remain in effect until the blood agency changes its policy of excluding gay male donors.
The proposition was put forward by the vice-president of the Montreal school commission, Paul Trottier, who is barred from donating blood because he's gay.
Hema Quebec's questionnaire screens out
male donors who have had sex at least once with a man since 1977.
Trottier said the introduction of advanced screening methods makes the policy outdated, discriminatory, and perpetuates a false impre
ssion among youth that it is sexual orientation rather than sexual behaviour that's
risky.
The vote to cancel the event at the Montreal school commission was unanimous.
But David Page, the blood safety coordinator for the Canadian Hemophilia Society, said the school board hasn't done its homework, explaining that the policy has nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with safety.
"It's because of particular risk activitymen having sex with men," said Page. "Or a person using IV drugs. Or person receiving blood products that makes that individual more at risk for transmitting infection."
He also said that Health Canada decides what goes on the questionnaire, not Hema Quebec.
Hema Quebec said it's asked Health Canada to loo
sen the restriction and allow gay men who've refrained from sex for a year to donate blood.
Queers demand the right to murder people
http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/Vi...ame=qc_20041803
School board cancels blood drive
MONTREAL - Quebec's largest school board has voted to cancel Hema Quebec's annual blood drive at its Montreal offices and will remain in effect until the blood agency changes its policy of excluding gay male donors.
The proposition was put forward by the vice-president of the Montreal school commission, Paul Trottier, who is barred from donating blood because he's gay.
Hema Quebec's questionnaire screens out
male donors who have had sex at least once with a man since 1977.
Trottier said the introduction of advanced screening methods makes the policy outdated, discriminatory, and perpetuates a false impre
ssion among youth that it is sexual orientation rather than sexual behaviour that's
risky.
The vote to cancel the event at the Montreal school commission was unanimous.
But David Page, the blood safety coordinator for the Canadian Hemophilia Society, said the school board hasn't done its homework, explaining that the policy has nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with safety.
"It's because of particular risk activitymen having sex with men," said Page. "Or a person using IV drugs. Or person receiving blood products that makes that individual more at risk for transmitting infection."
He also said that Health Canada decides what goes on the questionnaire, not Hema Quebec.
Hema Quebec said it's asked Health Canada to loo
sen the restriction and allow gay men who've refrained from sex for a year to donate blood.