Paul Tuns: The unanimous support of all Conservatives, Green, and NDP MPs, joined by a handful of Liberals, was not enough to save Bill C-314, the Mental Health Protection Act, from being defeated in the House of Commons, on Oct. 18, in a vote of 167-150. The private member’s bill was introduced by Conservative MP Ed Fast (Abbottsford) in March to turn [...]
With this editorial, we conclude our series surveying the reasons why each of our nation’s national parties should adopt, wholeheartedly, a pro-life platform, and why they should all defend the unborn from the menace of abortion. Having made cases for the Liberals and the New Democrats (and even, in a separate editorial last month, the Greens and the Bloc), we come finally [...]
Paul Tuns: On Oct. 3, the Manitoba NDP won a majority in the provincial election for the first time since 2011, leading pro-lifers to wonder whether the province might reverse course on conscience rights and freedom of speech. The Progressive Conservative government of Brian Pallister, first elected in 2016, introduced what the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition calls the “gold standard” in conscience rights [...]
Paul Tuns: On August 22, then Saskatchewan Minister of Education Dustin Duncan announced the implementation of a parental consent policy to ensure parents and guardians were notified and gave permission to schools before teachers began using a student’s chosen name and pronouns at odds with their biological sex if the student is under 17 years of age. After a Saskatchewan judge temporarily [...]
John Carpay: Judging by Canadians’ overwhelming compliance with lockdowns, vaccine passports, and travel restrictions since March of 2020, it unfortunately seems that most Canadians meet authoritarianism with unquestioning obedience. University of Manitoba psychology professor Robert Altemeyer argues that those with an authoritarian personality are submissive even to authority figures who are dishonest, corrupt, and inept. They persist in their belief that their [...]
Rod Taylor, Special to The Interim Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Rod Taylor’s Sept. 15 press conference. The shedding of innocent blood in abortion clinics has some very observable economic costs. Since 1970, Canada has killed over 4 million pre-born babies. At a current rate generally estimated at about 100,000 per year, that is the equivalent of about 4,000 classrooms of [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 15, Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor held a press conference to elucidate where the party stands on issues other than abortion while committing itself to “the protection of innocent human life from conception until natural death, a position we still hold . . . and on this position we stand alone.” Held in the Ottawa Press Gallery [...]
While this current series of editorial confines itself to national parties, it is clearly the case that boutique political entities—like the Green Party—and regional ones—like the Bloc Québécois—should abandon their advocacy of abortion as well. The environmental movement has long been the vehicle for a virulent, radical, and dangerous form of anti-human policy. Implicit in the panic about carbon and emissions is [...]
Paul Tuns: Eduardo Verástegui, producer of Bella and Sound of Freedom, declared his candidacy to become president of Mexico. On Sept. 8, he tweeted that he “made the most important decision of my life,” announcing he “just registered with the INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral) my intention as an aspiring independent candidate for the presidency of the Mexican Republic, for the elections on [...]
In the second installment of this series of editorials—a series in which we make the case why each of Canada’s national political parties should be pro-life—we turn our attention to the New Democrats. Last month, readers will recall that the we argued that the Liberal Party should make an about-face and embrace the pro-life position because its long-standing (and endlessly repeated) commitment [...]
Paul Tuns: From Sept. 7-9, Conservative delegates from across the country assembled in Quebec City for the party’s biannual policy convention, where they elected a new National Council and voted on dozens of policies for the platform and constitutional amendments that govern the party. While the policies are not binding – a point leader Pierre Poilievre made to the media before the [...]
Oswald Clark: During a Sept. 17 interview on NBC's Meet the Press with new host Kristen Walker, former president Donald Trump said six-week abortion bans are hurting Republicans and that he would broker a compromise on abortion that would satisfy both pro-life and pro-abortion activists so the country and the Republican Party could move on from the issue. Pro-life activists were quick [...]
Richard Dur, Commentary: Three weeks after the release of Sound of Freedom, a film that tells the incredible true story of a former government agent who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue hundreds of children from sex traffickers, Premier Danielle Smith announced a $4-million investment to tackle the scourge of human trafficking in Alberta. Typically, human trafficking takes the form of sexual [...]
Warren McArthur: In July, the city of Hamilton refused to allow the Christian Heritage Party to display an advertisement for its party in a Hamilton bus shelter. The ad contained an image of a woman, and text which defined woman as an adult female (with information about CHP at the bottom of the ad). The ad defined woman in a way which [...]
Warren McArthur: BT_1172205 June 2017Arnold Viersen Official Portrait Ottawa, ONTARIO, on 05 June, 2017. Credit: Bernard Thibodeau, House of Commons Photo Services© HOC-CDC, 2017 Bill C-270, known as the “Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act,” is sponsored by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen (Peace River – Westlock). The Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act, or the SISE Act, is still at first reading. [...]