While an incumbent MP would naturally encourage pro-life voters to support his or her party in the upcoming federal election some pro-life Liberal Members cannot in conscience support their own party. When it comes to life and family issues selected Liberal backbenchers oppose the anti-family stand taken by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberal cabinet. This can prove problematic for pro-life [...]
The pro-life movement has seen in the Reform party a hope for achieving the legal protection of life from conception to natural death. In fact, some pro-lifers have sought nomination to run for Reform in the election. I was one such aspirant and my experiences expose a flaw in Reform’s appeal to pro-lifers. Attending the meetings of the riding associates, I found [...]
For the last couple of weeks, The Interim has received a number of telephone calls and letters criticizing our decision to allow sitting MPs to write articles describing how their particular party might best represent pro-life, pro-family Canadians. Mississauga MP Albina Guarnieri, whose article appeared in the March issue, has been especially singled out for attack by some readers (see first two [...]
One of the central thrusts of Campaign Life Coalition’s election effort is to evaluate each candidate’s position on right to life issues. It’s a major task, involving the work of staff and volunteers from across the country. The evaluation is based on candidate’s responses to a seven-item Campaign Life Coalition questionnaire. It forces our would-be leaders to declare their views on such [...]
Interim Staff Debate over the treatment of private members’ bills continued to divide Members of Parliament as the House broke for the June election. Several members, inkling some pro-life MP’s, have called for changes in the way private members’ bills or motions are selected for further action. Under the existing system, members submit bills or motions, which are then made into a [...]
Will we or won’t we? Vote in the June 2nd election that is. More important is what we do when we get there. Will we or won’t we. Vote for more of the same, that is. Will we vote for the best hope, or will we vote for no hope? The problems – Canada has many problems – all of them moral. [...]
Where the parties stand on the life issues The Liberal Party In 1993, Jean Chrétien said that his government would not revisit the abortion issue. In doing so, he committed the Liberals to the status quo of lawlessness where pre-born children are concerned. The party has recently confirmed that a Liberal government will not entertain measures to re-criminalize abortion. In effect, therefore, [...]
That’s how I predict the outcome of the forthcoming federal election. Remember, dear reader, that I was the only columnist on earth who about a year before the past Ontario provincial election called Mike Harris to win. (Many people thought it was just fluke on my part predicting Harris would win – others were sure it was.) I wish I could put [...]
And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing… washed his hands before the people saying ‘I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it.’ Mathew 27:24-30 Our nation is approaching a crossroads in its history with this federal election. I believe that if the current Liberal leadership receives another majority our freedoms will be in great danger. Thank [...]
With talk of a federal election filling the airwaves and newspapers, the question again arises in pro-life circles – what choices do we really have at the polling booth? With the exception of the Christian Heritage Party and a handful of pro-life candidates from the Liberal, Reform and Conservative parties, there is little to inspire the pro-life voter seeking to elect a [...]
TORONTO- Hopes for another pro-life Progressive Conservative candidate were dashed April 19 with the defeat of Phil Horgan in the Etobicoke-Lakeshore nomination. Horgan, vice-president of the Catholic Civil Rights League and past president of the Thomas More Lawyers’ Guild, lost by seven votes to Charles Donley in the closely-fought contest. His nomination and possible election would have added a vibrant pro-life voice [...]
One of the many dubious legacies left to us by the various Liberal governments of Pierre Elliot Trudeau is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We Canadians have heard if mentioned so many times yet few of us have even the foggiest notion of its contents. Until recently, I included myself in this group. Like many, I had a vague idea [...]
Interim staff Canada’s Catholic bishops have seized on the Brenda Drummond case to make the rights of the unborn a prominent issue in the upcoming federal election. In a letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family said the results of the Drummond case – which found that the unborn are not entitled to legal protection in [...]
Third of a series The abortion debate touches on theological, ethical, medical, legal, social and personal issues. At one point in time, abortion was considered an offence under the Criminal Code. The Law Reform Commission once referred to that code as our “moral code.” However, in January 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada threw out the relevant section with the Morgentaler decision. [...]
The failure of Roseanne Skoke to win the Liberal party nomination in Picton-Antigonish-Guysborough is a setback not only for her Nova Scotia supporters, but for pro-life people across the country. Since being elected in 1993, Skoke has been one of the most vocal defenders of unborn children on the federal scene. Unlike many of her colleagues on Parliament Hill, Skoke refused to [...]