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Matthew Lau: There are some cultural battles business does need to fight

As a rule, businesses should stay out of politics and stick to providing goods and services people want. Sometimes that rule has to be broken

British Columbia’s Conservatives are looking to defeat the NDP in the October 24 provincial election not only by highlighting the NDP government’s economic failures, but by fighting the culture war, too. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson says repealing the province’s “sexual orientation and gender identity education” — which teaches kindergarten children to denounce fairy tales such as Cinderella as sexist and “appreciate the gender spectrum, fluidity, and the use of gender pronouns” — will be a priority if the Conservatives form government.

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