Girl Guides Won’t Be Joining Santa Claus Parade as Part of Secular, Inclusive Policy

A Girl Guide holds up a keychain she made during an activity at the 100th year celebration of Girl Guides of Canada on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March. 9, 2010. Pawel Dwulit/The Canadian Press

A Girl Guides chapter in Ottawa has declined to participate in the annual Santa Claus parade due to the group’s policy of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

One of the organizers of the Kanata Santa Claus Parade in west Ottawa, Councillor Allan Hubley, told The Epoch Times on Oct. 24 that he invited a number of community groups to take part in the parade on Nov. 25, and the Girl Guides declined.