Canada – Photo with anti-LGBTQ+ politician was ‘colossal’ mistake, says Toronto brewer

Photo with anti-LGBTQ+ politician was ‘colossal’ mistake, says Toronto brewer

By Alastair Sharp in News, Politics
October 3rd 2019

A Toronto brewery co-founder says her own trade group made a “colossal, tone-deaf mistake” in meeting with a Ford government politician who has vowed to fight abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

Mandie Murphy, who co-founded Toronto's Left Field Brewery, tore into Ontario Craft Brewers (OCB) in an open letter dated Tuesday and posted on the brewery’s website. Her concerns were echoed by two other breweries: Sawdust City Brewing Co., another OCB member based in Gravenhurst, Ont., as well as Hamilton’s Merit Brewing.

Continued: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/03/news/photo-anti-lgbtq-politician-was-colossal-mistake-says-toronto-brewer