Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/03/03
By: Joseph Yeh
Michael McCulloch, Director of General Relations at the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT)
Taipei, March 3 (CNA) Taiwan’s decision to soon legalize same-sex marriage is a win for the people of the world, a Canadian diplomat and advocate of LGBTI rights told CNA earlier this week.
Michael McCulloch, Director of General Relations at the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT), the de facto Canadian embassy in Taiwan, said Taiwan’s decision made him feel “very hopeful as a person.”
Michael McCulloch, Director of General Relations at the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT)
“The reason why it does, is human rights is not guaranteed anywhere in the world,” he said when asked to comment on the Cabinet’s decision last month to draft a special bill to legalize same-sex marriage, which is now before the Legislature and expected to be enacted by May 24.
“It’s like a win for the people of the world,” said McCulloch, one of Canada’s staunchest advocates of LGBTI rights and a former professor of international human rights law. [FULL STORY]
