Montreal's Pride parade will proceed on schedule this weekend, the organizer of the city's LGBTQ+ Pride festival said Saturday as he reassured prospective attendees the event would not fall prey to the sort of abrupt cancellation that unexpectedly derailed last year's festivities.
The 2022 edition of the parade was called off just hours before it was supposed to begin in downtown Montreal, prompting Mayor Valérie Plante to call for an independent inquiry tasked with determining what went wrong. It concluded the cancellation was due to a misunderstanding among Montreal Pride festival personnel after they discovered 96 of the 200 volunteers needed to work security for the parade were never recruited.
The inquiry's final report, released last October, laid out a series of miscommunications that plagued the 2022 parade. "We were extremely proactive as soon as we received the report, and we drew up an action plan ," Gamache said."Montreal Pride was created in 2007 and then it developed quite organically," Gamache said. "We reached a point where maybe we needed to make everything we were doing more operational, better, more professional. And that's what we've done."
"The parade is a fine example: it's not just the communities that march, our allies do too, in the streets and on the sidewalks."Montreal was already buzzing with Pride revelry — and anticipation — Saturday afternoon. In the city's Village neighbourhood, the historic centre of the local LGBTQ+ community, Ste-Catherine Street has become a kilometre-long showcase of local businesses and organizations, each with info booths manned by employees and volunteers.
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