I don’t want to diminish the work done by groups such as Wilmot’s because it is important work. This is real-world progress that you can see with your own two eyes and applaud. It will be unusual for a sitting PM to skip a well-known city’s pride parade, not commonplace. This means that when someone new is elected to the office of prime minister - a Conservative perhaps - the national expectation around major pride events will be one of attendance. Thanks to the PM, norms are slowly shifting to a point where it’s standard for a prime minister to attend not only a major city’s pride celebration, but a smaller city’s celebration as well: a city such as Halifax, where pride isn’t an international tourist draw. This may be true, but sometimes style counts for a great deal. Some say Trudeau is all style and no substance. This Saturday, the PM will again make history when he becomes the first sitting prime minister to participate in another more understated but equally important celebration: the Halifax pride parade. Last summer, Justin Trudeau made history when he became the first sitting prime minister to march in the Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal pride parades (not all at once, of course).