On Sunday, January 12, 70 pro-lifers gathered in front of the Hilton Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto to picket Ontario Premier David Peterson as he attended a meeting and dinner with Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan. Premier Peterson drove past the picket line an hour earlier than his announced arrival. He did not stop to speak to the protesters. The picket was [...]
From November 6 to November 26 Family “Mr. Jean-Claude Malėpart (Montreal-Saint-Marie): Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the Members of this House, and especially the Conservative Members, of commitments made by the Right Hon. Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) and his Government to our Canadian families. First of all, on November 5, and I quote: “My Government has a high priority measures [...]
Svend Robinson’s Private Member’s Bill, C-238, to remove abortion from the Criminal Code, was defeated in the House of Commons at the end of October. MPs successfully used the tactic that has been used by pro-abortion Mos in the past to block private members’ bills seeking tighter control on abortion. That is, debate following the Bill’s second reading continued until the Speaker [...]
The possibility of forming a new political party is to be examined by a special Campaign Life Committee. The Committee is to draft a platform, examine technical details of selection and nomination of candidates, and to report back to the national body. This was the decision of Campaign Life Canada at its annual meeting on November 25, 1985. Campaign Life is Pro-life’s [...]
Like it or not, each month seems to bring further evidence that pro-life faith in the politicians of Canada’s three political parties is misplaced. Even rather firm declarations of pro-life sentiments by candidates at election time are now to be looked at with extreme caution. They often prove to be no more than vote-getting devices. They certainly do not guarantee either understanding [...]
On November 27, Ontario Labour Minister Bill Wrye announced that the Peterson government is considering making it illegal to “discriminate” against homosexuals. Wrye promised to unveil “reforms” to the Ontario Human Rights Code within a few weeks. “I think we ought to take a real close look at it (sexual preference)” the Toronto Star (Nov. 28) reported Wrye as saying. Wrye acknowledged [...]
About 50 pro-life demonstrators showed up in front of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver on Tuesday, December 10, reported the Vancouver Sun on December 11. (30, according to the Province). The demonstration was directed against Ontario Premier David Peterson, on his first visit to B.C. Walter Szetela, spokesman for Campaign Life’s B.C. chapter, said he was pleasantly surprised by the turnout: [...]
I like Mr. David Peterson. I haven’t met him personally but, seeing him on television, I think he is a man to whom I could relate. He has a sensitive, intelligent face, a gracious manner and there is no trace of arrogance in his bearing. He also gives the impression of being a “family man,” with an attractive wife and beautiful children. [...]
Despite overwhelming support from MPs in the House of Commons, and from people across the United Kingdom, Enoch Powell’s Unborn Children (Protection) Bill failed to reach the Statute Book. In introducing his Bill Mr. Powell stated that he had felt “s deep and instinctive sense of repugnance” when he read the Warnock Report’s recommendation that Parliament should legalize experiments on human embryos [...]
While on a visit to the Principality of Liechenstein in September of this year, Pope John Paul II addressed civil authorities. As is customary with Papal speeches, his formal address was not meant to only for the ears of the local government. The English-language Osservatore Romano of September 23 carried it under the title “Respect for human life guarantees a future full [...]
There appears to be confusion about the role of the jury in the administration of justice in Canada, and also with regard to the December 1984 jury decision in the Morgentaler case in Ontario. A recent article on the Opinion page of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, by freelance writer, William C. Heine, is a case in point. Mr. Heine implies that it is [...]
PM names women’s advisor OTTAWA – Michele Bedard, former chief of staff to Walter McLean, Minister responsible for the Status of Women, was named as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s special advisor on women’s issues in September. Bedard replaces Jocelyn Cote-O’Hara, who left to return to the private sector. (Toronto Star, September 11) Juries An editorial in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record of October 3 [...]
Family “Mrs. Lucie Pépin (Outremont): Mr. Speaker, this week is National Family Week. This even does not aim at glorifying unduly this institution, but simply at pointing out the difficulties faced by families in a world where children are more a problem than a source of happiness. The structure of the labour market and our whole social organization do not favour the [...]
It is extraordinary that a man like Morgentaler, the abortionist, flouts the law under police protection, while those who are trying to uphold the law are jailed. How could our laws have come to this? The answer is that our society has gone from Realism to Relativism. Realism A common-sense realism maintains that there is a reality outside the mind that is [...]
On Friday October 11, Premier Peterson went to Emeryville (near Windsor) to honour Dick Ruston, Essex North liberal MPP for 17 years, who retired from politics earlier in the year. He was one of the 375 guests who packed the Knights of Columbus hall. As the Premier entered the hall he “received some vocal opposition from more than 100 local anti-abortion protestors [...]