TD bank wastes your money.

To The Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank:
Toronto-Dominion Centre

It is beyond my understanding how a major Canadian institution like the TD Bank can give financial support to the public display of nudity and sexual acts performed on the streets of Toronto during the 'Gay parade.'
Only a sick mind would think that encouraging drug use, promiscuity and a deadly form of sexual narcissism is a project worth supporting.
I can speak for my family and friends to say that we will not be using the TD Bank services in the future but we hope you and your children enjoy the porn. you promote.



Hello,

Thank you for your inquiry.

Pride Toronto, particularly the annual Pride Parade, has played and continues to play an important, some might say historic, role in raising awareness of and creating visibility for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. In the five years that TD has been a sponsor of Pride Week activities including the Parade, we have at times, been criticized for our involvement and support of such an event.

Our rationale for our sponsorship has not changed: to promote and celebrate diversity in communities where our valued customers, clients and employees live and work.

We have seen Pride Toronto deal with its share of controversy. Pride's roots are, of course, political. The most recent example of which you are aware: pressure to exclude certain LGBT activist political groups from participating in the Pride Parade, and pressure to protect freedom of expression and allow the participation of any and all LGBT groups.

This is not the first time that TD has been asked as a sponsor to withdraw, or threaten to withdraw our support from Pride Toronto. We have chosen not to withdraw our support and also not to dictate the terms of that support. We recognize that this is a very sensitive issue with strongly held and opposing views within and beyond the LGBT community.

We have confidence in Pride Toronto and in the broader LGBT community that both groups will find a way to move forward on this issue, as they have on other sensitive issues in the past.

We hope this information is helpful. Please contact us again with any additional questions you may have.

Regards,

Rebecca
Internet Correspondence Representative
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