By Andrew Lawton Saskatchewan Conservative member of parliament Cathay Wagantall’s private member’s bill to criminalize sex-selective abortion is noble, but it should be approached with caution. The bill confronts a horrific reality, but also poses moral challenges to the pro-life movement. “Above all, I’m bringing this bill forward in defense of pre-born Canadian girls and boys who are aborted simply due to [...]
Lou Iacobelli Have you looked at Canada's 2021 Census? This is the message Canadians get from some unnamed chief statistician, "Thank you for taking a few minutes to participate in the 2021 Census. The information you provide is converted into statistics used by communities, businesses and governments to plan services and make informed decisions about employment, education, health care, market development and more." [...]
By Paul Tuns Bill C-233, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sex-selective abortion) was introduced to the House of Commons in February and had second reading on April 14. Proponents of C-233 said it is necessary to protect preborn children, especially girls, from being killed by abortion for being the wrong sex. Pro-abortion MPs claimed there was no need for the [...]
By Rick McGinnis Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements The end of lockdown is in sight, or so they tell us. There is, of course, the little matter of vaccinating the majority of the population – easier in some countries than others, apparently. Then there are ongoing debates about just what privilege immunity confers – the speed with which we’ll be [...]
By John Carpay At an April 8 news conference, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney referenced pro-life convictions as the basis for continuing with, and tightening further, his lockdown restrictions on social and economic life. Since politicians imposed “two weeks to flatten the curve” more than 13 months ago, Kenney has repeatedly referred to the “moral responsibility to protect lives.” He and other premiers, [...]
Paul Tuns Last month, Cardus, a Hamilton-based think tank, released a Family Policy Brief by Jon Peter Mitchell and Andrea Mrozek that examined “policy options to better serve families.” Mitchell and Mrozek note that “strong, stable families are irreplaceable and are foundational to a healthy society,” and that “our best social policies do not replace or attempt to replicate the family but [...]
Paul Tuns Analysis Richard Decarie’s leadership bid for the Conservative Party of Canada was nixed by their Leadership Election Organizing Committee in February 2020. This spring he tried to run for a position on the party’s National Council, but the party executive claimed it did not receive his nomination form before the deadline, disqualifying him and another pro-lifer from Quebec from running [...]
Paul Tuns The centerpiece of the Liberal government’s spending plans over the next five years is a $30 billion commitment to child care. It is a relatively small amount among the $614 billion in program spending in 2020/2021, which is schedule to fall to $475.5 billion in 2021/2022 before levelling off in the vicinity of $430 billion in the years afterwards. But [...]
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Mark Wegierski The problem of centre-periphery relations in a society, and of how a geographically extensive country extending beyond the confines of a city-state, is to be effectively governed, are some of the most pressing problems in political theory. One of the failures of the Ancient Greeks was that they found it difficult to extend their political units beyond the city-state. One [...]
Interim Staff Chapter 7 of the federal budget is titled, “A more equal Canada,” and within it is a section “Supporting access to sexual and reproductive health care information and services,” in which the government asserts, “All Canadians should have access to a full suite of sexual and reproductive health resources and services, no matter where they live.” To this end, it [...]