Canadian Conservatives and Ontario voters will have the opportunity to do something heroic in the next few months: defend preborn children. As we report on page two, there could be as many as four pro-life candidates seeking the Conservative Party of Canada leadership. On the same page we report on another positive development, the rise of two new Ontario parties led by [...]
Paul Tuns: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the federal budget on April 7 and most media coverage focused on the size of the deficit, measures to address the housing affordability crisis, new defense spending and a new dental program, and tax increases for large businesses and the wealthy. But there are a number of anti-life and anti-family initiatives in the budget that [...]
Paul Tuns: The 43rd Ontario general election will be held June 2, and Ontario pro-lifers may have more choice in supportable candidates than they’ve had since the height of the Family Coalition Party in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In an eblast to supporters in early January, Campaign Life Coalition director of political operations Jack Fonseca said there could be three [...]
Paul Tuns: Pro-life Canadians urged to get membership before June 3 cut-off Leslyn Lewis could be joined by three other Campaign Life Coalition-supported candidates in the federal Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign, which will crown a new party leader on Sept. 10. Lewis was approved as an eligible candidate in early April, having garnered the requisite 500 signatures from party memberships, [...]
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 28, the Senate failed to invoke cloture (closure) on a filibuster in order to proceed to a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which passed in the House of Representatives when every Democrat but one voted for it earlier in the month. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer knew he did not have enough votes for victory as [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was International Women’s Day. It was incumbent on America’s 46th president to salute women throughout the world and to offer them something encouraging and uplifting. He told half the population on the planet that women cannot “live up to their God-given potential” without abortion-on-demand. The inclusion of a reference to God is curious since hardly [...]
John Carpay: A person who is arrested or put in prison because of his or her political beliefs is a political prisoner. This also holds true for peaceful activists who are wrongfully arrested under trumped-up criminal charges. Long-standing readers of The Interim will immediately think about Mary Wagner and Fr. Tony Van Hee as examples of Canadians who were arrested or imprisoned [...]
Oswald Clark: In 2020 on the campaign trail, then-candidate Joe Biden promised to appoint a pro-abortion, black woman to the top court and he fulfilled his promise by naming Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring liberal judge Stephen Breyer, for whom she once clerked. Breyer’s retirement takes affect after the current term meaning that he will be ruling on the challenge to [...]
By Andrew Lawton: Once again, the Conservatives are searching for a new leader, and once again it seems the party is rehashing the same fight over its identity and future. At the time I’m writing this, the Conservative leadership race has six candidates, including the scrappy frontrunner, the media favourite, the social conservative, the outsider, the renegade, and the “Who the heck [...]
Paul Tuns Editor's Note: When The Interim went to press, former MP Leona Alleslev, MP Marc Dalton (Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge), and former candidates Joel Etienne and Bobby Singh were not yet candidates. Campaign Life Coalition gave Alleslev a red light in the previous two Parliaments, meaning she was pro-abortion and anti-family. CLC has yet to rate Dalton, Etienne, and Singh. Seven candidates [...]
Rory Leishman: Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau promised that the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would enhance the constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Instead, the opposite is true: Canadians today are demonstrably less free than they were 40 years ago. As evidence, consider the unprecedented, freedom-stifling provisions of Bill C-4, the notorious legislation adopted in December by Parliament with [...]
AndrewLawton: Call them the honks heard ‘round the world. The convoy that rolled across Canada in January before making downtown Ottawa the freest spot in the country sent a message about much more than vaccine mandates. In a country whose pandemic restrictions have been defined by complacency and acceptance rather than resistance, the convoy was the moment at which Canadians decided they’d [...]
Oswald Clark: The process to amend the Vermont state constitution is lengthy and arduous. The state house and state senate must pass bills approving a constitutional amendment in back-to-back sessions and then the state voters must approve it in a referendum. In 2019, both houses of the state legislature passed the Right to Personal Reproductive Autonomy which would recognize abortion as a [...]
John Carpay: Fifty-two years separate the Trudeaus, father and son, in their use of emergency powers. But apart from the two prime ministers sharing the same last name, the events surrounding the government’s use of emergency powers in 1970 and in 2022 have nothing in common. In 1970, Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act to deal with bombings, kidnappings and murders [...]
By Mark Wegierski: The Canadian federal election of September 20, 2021, was another failure for the Conservative Party of Canada, despite Conservative leader Erin O’Toole’s attempted “move to the centre.” After five months the Conservative Party put an end to the infighting among pro- and anti-O’Toole factions, with the caucus voting him out as leader. While the political leader is important, the [...]