Donaldson said funding is also available to not-for-profit organizations and Indigenous communities.
The minority NDP government, supported by three members of the Green party, is poised to pass legislation today that paves the way for the referendum on Nov. 30, 2018.
The Ministry of Public Safety says starting Dec. 1 prohibitions ranging from three to 36 months will replace existing 15-day penalties for those drivers and other repeat offenders.
She says the decision was made in September after more than a year of community consultations where members of the LGBTQ community told board members they were uncomfortable seeing uniformed officers or police vehicles at the event because of historic police oppression.
A similar battle dragged on for four years at the WTO in the last instalment of the Canada-U.S. softwood dispute
Insiders say the announcement will not include naming a new chief justice.