LifeSiteNews.com Garry Breitkreuz, M. for Yorkton-Melville, Sask. has thrown his support behind the vast majority of his constituents by calling on the government to stop public funding of all abortions that aren’t medically necessary. “The demands are pouring into my office and I want everyone to know that I share their concerns and frustration,” he said. “My years of research clearly show [...]
LifeSiteNews.com A Conservative amendment to the Liberal bill to redefine marriage, which would have stopped bill C-38 in its tracks, has been defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 132-164. Fully 34 Liberal MPs voted with the opposition Conservatives against the Liberal government’s bill, along with 95 of the 99 Conservative MPs and three Bloc Quebecois MPs. The vote [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim As Paul Martin’s Liberals are pilloried over Adscam, and Ottawa is redolent with rumours of a spring election, social conservatives are working hard at the local level to support candidates who are willing to publicly defend life and marriage. Pro-life and pro-family organizations are mobilizing across the nation, riding by riding, to help like-minded candidates get elected as [...]
Delegates support traditional marriage, but ‘wimp-out’ on abortion In the beginning The founding convention of the Conservative Party of Canada marked the beginning of a new phase in the pro-life movement’s - specifically Campaign Life Coalition’s - political efforts on behalf of the unborn. It also most definitely ended another era. In the years immediately following the 1988 Supreme Court of Canada [...]
MP David Kilgour (Edmonton Southeast) has quit the Liberal Party and announced that he will not run again ... Liberal MP Pat O’Brien (London-Fanshawe) flirts with quitting the Liberal caucus. But he pledges to stay when Prime Minister Paul Martin promises to ask a legislative committee to hold public hearings on the issue of same-sex “marriage,” instead of closed hearings that would [...]
I had a dream recently, in which I wished that I had taken my camcorder to bed so the whole world would be able to see it in living colour. It was Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state, racing into President Bush’s office at the Crawford Ranch in Texas, yelling: “George! It’s Paul Martin! The prime minister of Canada! He’s been [...]
In kicking off the debate on the government’s civil marriage act, Prime Minister Paul Martin declared: “I stand before members here today and before the people of our country to say that I believe in and I will fight for the Charter of Rights.” That’s typical of Martin. Instead of advancing any reasonable explanation for his newfound determination to enact same-sex “marriage” [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Canada’s Liberal government has been pushing the line that ending discrimination against sexual orientation necessitates allowing same-sex “marriage.” With his Liberal colleagues spouting that line at home, Canada’s Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew was in Geneva March 14, urging the United Nations to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights opened its [...]
Editor’s Note: Excerpts from the House of Commons debates over C-38, the government’s legislation that redefines marriage to include homosexual couples. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville, CPC) “In 1999 I voted alongside my colleagues and with those sitting across the way on the government side, and my vote was in favour of the traditional definition of marriage and so to were the votes cast [...]
The Conservative Party of Canada’s founding convention (March 17 to 19, 2005 in Montreal) resulted in the new party taking a position in support of the traditional definition of marriage and a position against a future CPC government taking any action on the abortion issue. Here is a timeline and description of the events leading up to the convention and the highlights [...]
This is worth noting because it illustrates the utter contempt that both Prime Minister Paul Martin and Justice Minister Irwin Cotler have for Parliament and their own Liberal MPs. On Feb. 21, Conservative MP Rick Casson (Lethbridge) said in a question to Paul Harold Macklin, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada: “We understand that after [...]
The Vatican phoned! It was a prelate in the cardinal’s office in charge of totally disastrous situations. I learned that I had just been appointed grand inquisitor! There hadn’t been a grand inquisitor appointed since the Spanish Inquisition. Here I was, a humble layman and my job was to address a serious case of heresy affecting Canada. I was provided with amazing [...]
Commentary by Steve Jalsevac Special to The Interim More than 20 years ago, when Pierre Trudeau was busy remaking Canada in his own image, we fought against his efforts to impose upon this country, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. During a Jan. 31 press conference, Justice Minister Irwin Cotler defended his government’s decision to bring forth a bill redefining marriage and [...]
John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim A very upbeat Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas spoke with LifeSiteNews.com at the March for Life in January, saying of the United States, it “is established that this is a pro-life country.” The Republican from Kansas has been a strong voice for the pro-life movement in the Senate and is usually at the forefront of pro-life [...]
Interim Staff When Conservative MP Jim Prentice announced in early February that he was going to support the Liberals’ anti-marriage legislation, Bill C-38, it came as a bit of a shock to many Calgarians, who thought they’d elected a conservative to Parliament. Yet, such voters must remember that the merger of the PCs and Canadian Alliance brought together two radically different parties. [...]