Correction of the Record
Director Yali Trost's Statement
In some social media circles and online sources there has been recent discussion of the incident on October 3rd, 2018 that involved myself and Larry Hayes. I just want to make a couple of comments to correct misinformation I am seeing.
I went over to Larry Hayes because he called a Chinese Canadian candidate named Jimmy Zhao an idiot. Since I experienced insensitivity myself as a new immigrant, I sympathized with Jimmy and wanted to help Jimmy. It’s simply because of this remark, and not SOGI at all that I tried to talk to Larry Hayes. At that time, I didn’t even know who he was, let alone what he believed in or his background. Why should I ask him about SOGI? This is neither a matter of ideological differences nor that of LGBT issues.
Please be accurate in reporting this matter.