“They don’t say it, but I suspect there are some here who just don’t like Pride,” said Councillor Joe Cressy, a left-leaning politician in a downtown ward, who noted that Pride funding was targeted in the 1990s over the issue of nudity in the parade, and more recently, over the participation of a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.

“Today we are being told we shouldn’t fund Pride because of police participation,” Mr. Cressy said. “Somehow, Pride is always held to a completely different standard than every single organization we fund in this city. Nobody’s talking about the symphony or the AGO or what their policies are.”

I know Joe, I know...why just last year I was at the symphony with the nude cellists strutting their stuff, and the AGO's showing of Jewish caricature art from the 1930s wasn't protested at all...double standard I say....you're bang on with your "suspicions" ...