Alberta pro-life supporters are cautiously optimistic with news of Premier Ralph Klein’s landslide victory in the March 11 provincial election. Klein’s Conservative government captured 51 per cent of the popular vote to win 63 of the 83 seats in the Alberta legislature. The premier rode a wave to fiscal conservatism to win another mandate from to a generally complacent electorate. He ran [...]
Recently, we visited a number of women, prominent in politics but from different parties and with a range of views on the need for pro-life legislation. Three Liberal members were interviewed, two Reform Party members and one Liberal Senator. Several others either refused outright or failed to respond to our request. (Ed. Note, the article was completed prior to Roseanne Skoke’s defeat [...]
Roseanne Skoke’s failure to win re-nomination in a newly created federal constituency in Nova Scotia is a hard lesson in the realities of Liberal politics in the late 1990s, say pro-life leaders. Skoke, one of the leading pro-life, pro-family voices in federal politics, lost by 147 votes to fellow Liberal Francis LeBlanc in the March 22 nomination contest. The two incumbents were [...]
The future of our country depends on the strength of our families. The Reform Party believes that this fundamental institution should be central to the formation of public policy. There is a growing consensus that not only have families been forgotten under the decisions of Liberal-Tory policy, but the cumulative effects of disregard and competing special interests have in fact done great [...]
Pat Binns, Prince Edward Island's new premier, has consistently voted pro-life, both federally and provincially. "I believe that human life is sacred. I have always felt that it is our duty to protect it," he says. He credits his upbringing for these views. Binns grew up in Lloydminster, Alberta. When he came to PEI as a summer exchange student, he could hardly [...]
Pro-family advocates alienated until now by the antics of mainstream federal political parties may find hope I the Reform Party's recently announced "Commitment to the Canadian Family." However, the news for pro-life supporters may not be as encouraging. Reform included a pledge to make family life a priority as part of its six-point platform in preparation for a federal election expected this [...]
Pro-life, pro-family, Liberal backbench MP Roseanne Skoke faces a challenge for re-nomination due to federal electoral boundary redistribution. Skoke's Central Nova riding will be eliminated, with most of it being incorporated into a new Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough constituency for the next federal election. Antigonish and Guysborough Counties and currently part of the Cape Breton Highlands Canso riding, held by Liberal Francis LeBlanc, although Guysborough [...]
Campaign Life Coalition has finalized plans for a federal election, expected in early June. The official election strategy has been formulated, and will centre on evaluating each candidate for his or her position on pro-life, pro-family issues. The results of a questionnaire will be made into an information kit which will be made available to voters throughout the country. The questionnaire contains [...]
Since coming to office in 1993, the Liberal Government has been engulfed in the struggle to repair Canada's finance after a decade of complete neglect and short-sightedness. Without the fiscal discipline spearheaded by Finance Minister Paul Martin, Canadians would not today have the means to deal with social or moral imperatives in a constructive way. Child poverty is a renewed focus for [...]
When I first read that Dalton McGuinty Junior, the son of the late Dalton McGuinty Senior, had been elected leader of the Liberal party and saw his smiling face in the paper, I felt optimistic about the future of the Liberal Party’s position on abortion. However, my enthusiasm was short-lived. On CBC Radio’s Metro Morning, the day after his election, Dalton made [...]
My New Year’s resolution this year was to try to be more charitable towards my friends and adversaries. Summed up –it means for me to stop calling liars “liars.” After all to ‘lie’ is to break one of the Ten Commandments and that is a very serious charge. And there’s always the distinct possibly that I could be wrong. Or even worse [...]
What, exactly, was the Gag Law? M.S. Nepean Gag Laws are the attempts by Parliament to muzzle "third parties" such as Campaign Life Coalition, at election time. There have been two attempts: one in 1983, and the one in 1993 which was finally defeated in October 1996. In essence the 1993 law attempted to shut out all but the elite of registered [...]
On economic issues the Reform Party totally adheres to the doctrine of responsible democracy whereby the party and the candidates make known their positions before they are elected and citizens can vote for whom they can trust to act in their best interests. On moral issues, on the other hand, the party has bound itself to a rigid-interpretation of the doctrine of [...]
By: Mike Mastromatteo Interim Staff Opinion is mixed in the pro-life community over the November 5 election of Bill Clinton to his second term as U.S President. Despite less than overwhelming support for Republican challenger Bob Dole, U.S. pro-life organizations preferred the Senate House leader’s plodding patriotism to the shifting values of the Democratic incumbent. “Where is the outrage?” was the theme [...]
Bubba was on the phone. I got a call from Bill Clinton. Bill wanted me to come up with a slogan for his re-election bid for the presidency of the United States in November. Right off the top of my head, I suggested: ‘Crud Wins – Vote Clinton!’ Bill loved it and thanked me profusely and said that he would use it. [...]