MP Leslyn Lewis MP Cathay Wagantall MP Arnold Viersen Paul Tuns On Nov. 24, three Conservative MPs addressed the Save Our Charities rally on Parliament Hill to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s threat to strip crisis pregnancy centres and other pro-life organizations of their charitable tax status. During the federal election, on page four [...]
Let us dissent from the orgy of praise for House of Commons and Senate passing the odious conversion therapy ban, Bill C-4, without any debate or hearings, a parliamentary manoeuvre that requires unanimous consent. When private companies agree to cooperate, it is called collusion; when politicians agree to cooperate, it receives hosannahs as bipartisanship. Politics is an arena in which ideas are [...]
Paul Tuns Bill C-4, the Trudeau government’s sweeping ban of conversion therapy which was to help same-sex attracted and Canadians confused about their birth gender passed in both the House and Senate in early December without debate or committee hearings when both chambers gave unanimous consent to send the bill to a final vote. An earlier version of the government’s conversion therapy [...]
Interim Staff On Nov. 2, NDP MPP Terrance Kernaghan (London North Centre) reintroduced a private member’s bill that will, if passed, outlaw the use of abortion victim photography in pro-life activism unless certain conditions are met. Bill 41, an “Act to regulate the mailing of images of fetuses” or the “Viewer Discretion Act” is the same as Bill 259 that Kernaghan introduced [...]
Andrew Lawton I’m hesitant to overstate the importance of “shadow ministers” in the opposition benches. The insufferable term the Conservatives have taken to calling them obscures the function better exemplified by the previous title – “critics.” Critic slots aren’t real jobs to the extent that cabinet appointments are, who fills them nonetheless revealing of what and whom the opposition leader values. Conservative [...]
Paul Tuns Following what Erin O’Toole himself called a “disappointing” election result in September, the Conservative leader promised a review of the party’s campaign. Many disappointed party members do not want to wait for the results of the review that will be conducted by the former MP, James Cumming, hand-picked by O’Toole to explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of [...]
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau believes in anything, it is abortion. And he wants every Canadian to follow suit. In 2014, Trudeau declared that all Liberal candidates would have to support abortion. In 2018, his government made every organization and company that received federal subsides through the Summer Jobs Program sign an attestation that they supported Charter Rights including abortion (which is [...]
Rory Leishman: Among the many disgraceful policies championed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his inglorious political career, one of the worst has been his insistence that a principled physician has no right in conscience to refuse to collaborate in the deliberate killing of a baby in the womb. During the federal election campaign, rights of conscience became the focus on August [...]
Editor’s Note: The Interim interviewed Campaign Life Coalition national president Jeff Gunnarson the day after the election. The Interim: What does CLC want to see out of the next Parliament? Jeff Gunnarson: The Conservatives can’t appear as if they’re back on their heels. The pro-life MPs must be our voice in Parliament. They need to push back against the Trudeau agenda in [...]
Paul Tuns - Analysis: On August 15, Justin Trudeau asked for an election with an eye to regaining a majority. Voters will cast their ballots on Sept. 20, following a five-week campaign. Over the last 22 months, the Trudeau government has continued to push a socially liberal agenda, just as it had during its first mandate. Over the first four years, Justin Trudeau’s [...]
Mark Wegierski The Maverick Party (formerly the Wexit Party) is the federal Western separatist party readying to attack the Conservative flank in the next election. The Conservatives do not need an election, until they can figure out how to deal with this undoubtedly potentially fatal vote splitting. Their Western flank is only going to be more exposed as time passes (as Wexit/’Buffalo’/separatism [...]
Editor’s Note: The Interim’s editor Paul Tuns interviewed Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor by email. The transcript appears with only slight edits to conform to our style guide. The Interim: The pandemic has affected politics over the past 16 months -- the Conservative leadership, virtual parliamentary debates, possibly even the decision to put off going to the polls federally. How has [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Ontario New Democrat MPP Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre) introduced Bill 259, the Viewer Discretion Act (Images of Fetuses) on March 8. Bill 259 directly targets the efforts of pro-life groups such as the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR), which uses abortion victim photography in “Choice Chains” in high-traffic locations, but also distributes the images in residential mailboxes. The [...]
Paul Tuns: Washington Post political reporters routinely refer to U.S. President Joe Biden as “devoutly” or “deeply” Catholic despite his support for abortion. Biden calls himself personally pro-life, but has completely abandoned his prior support for the Hyde Amendment which outlawed taxpayer funding for abortion through Medicaid. Upon becoming President, he reversed the Mexico City Policy which outlawed the use of American [...]
By Paul Tuns On March 4, Manitoba MLA Nahanni Fontaine (NDP, St. John’s) introduced for the third time in six years a private member’s bill, No. 207, The Abortion Protest Buffer Zone Act, which, if passed, would make the province the seventh in Canada to restrict the free speech rights of pro-lifers within the vicinity of an abortion facility. Fontaine told the [...]