The Leader Post of Regina, February 23, 1985 quoted the Premier of Saskatchewan, Grant Devine, as saying that Morgentaler will not be permitted to open a clinic. As long as I’m premier, Dr. Henry Morgentaler will never open an abortion clinic in Saskatchewan. Devine told 300 Progressive Conservatives in Yorkton on Friday, February 22. “The history of pro-abortion [...]
Mrs. Monique Vezina, MP Minister responsible for CIDA Ministry for External Relations Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2 Dear Mrs. Vezina Re: International Planned Parenthood Federation funding by the Department of External Relations Thank you for your letter of January 24, 1985. We have been informed by others who corresponded with the Department that they received identical replies. Regrettably, [...]
Last fall, members of parliament and senators were sent a copy of the September issue of Tellus, the quarterly journal of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada (PPFC), which contained the results of PPFC’s two surveys of sex education in Canada. In its Winter 1984 issue, Tellus printed excerpts from letters received from MPs and Senators. Some of the letters excerpted [...]
CMA supports Morgentaler’s India trip Henry Morgentaler was invited to give a lecture at a conference on law and medicine sponsored by the Indian Supreme Court and the Indian Medical Association in the second week of February, 1985. Canadian co-sponsors of Morgentaler’s trip were the Canadian Medical Association and the British Columbia Medical Association. Canadian Civil Liberties The Candaian Civil Liberties [...]
For the first time since the legalization of abortion in 1973, a U.S. President is lending his prestige and authority to seek legal rights for the unborn. President Ronald Reagan was the first president to address the now-annual demonstration in Washington on January 22, the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion. Reagan’s comments delighted the 71,000 strong pro-life [...]
Our Spadina neighbourhood is unique in many ways. Settled in the heart of Toronto, one of the largest cities of the world, we have a congenial community that has a mix of people as diverse as the architecture of our buildings. Both our buildings and people come in all ages and extremes. On a lovely spring day I can see my [...]
The Badgley Committee on Sexual Offences Against Children and Youth made several recommendations for changes in the law to protect children from the effects of pornography. There recommendations cover the two main areas in which children are exploited by such material. Firstly, there is the direct sexual abuse of children who are used in the production of child pornography. Secondly, there is [...]
Child pornography is readily available in Canada. It is mostly imported illegally and is almost impossible for the authorities to detect because it comes to the purchaser through the mail in “plain brown envelopes.” Child pornography production is not a large industry in Canada, according to the Badgley Committee on Child Abuse. However, a substantial amount of child [...]
The Criminal Code contains a number of provisions governing pornography although the word itself I is never used. These provisions generally refer instead to material which is “obscene”, “indecent,” “immoral” or “scurrilous”, or in some combination thereof. Obscenity is the only one of the four words that is spelled out in law. The others have been left to the Courts [...]
January 23, 1985 PETITIONS Abortion Clinics Mr. Bill Domm(Peterborough): Mr. Speaker, it is my duty to present this petition from the undersigned constituents of the riding of Peterborough who humbly pray and call upon Parliament to work for immediate change in the present law so that abortion clinics are made available to everyone in need of their services. [...]
Ottawa On January 16, 1985, Mr. Justice Gerard LaForest of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Minister John Crosbie. Judge La Forest, 58, replaces Mr. Justice Roland Ritchie who resigned because of ill health. It had been expected that the successor of Judge Ritchie, who was from Nova [...]
On February 5, abortionist Henry Morgentaler gave a lecture in the distinguished annual Dunning Trust series at Queen’s University. This year’s theme for all lectures was the dignity of the individual. Not surprisingly, when an abortionist is invited to speak on the dignity of the individual, there is bound to be controversy. Indeed, this lecture proved to be the most controversial [...]
The Cabinet of Ontario Premier Frank Miller, who succeeded Bill Davis last January, was sworn in on February 8, 1985. It included a new Attorney General, Robert Welch, and new Solicitor-General, John Williams. John Williams, MPP for the Oriole riding in Metro Toronto, is a strong pro-life supporter. On December 11, 1984, when still a backbencher, he urged then [...]
The Federal Government has turned down an application for a grant made by the Real Women of Canada on the grounds that the organization’s aims do not meet the “spirit” of the Women’s Program. A letter from the Department of the Secretary of State to Real Women stated that “the promotion of a particular family [...]
In April this year two “equality clauses” will come into effect in our Charter of Rights. In essence, these clauses state that nay laws which discriminate between the sexes are invalid under the Charter. Admirable as this may be at first glance --- there surely are very few Canadians (male or female, pro or anti feminist) who would [...]