Legend has it that Canada's first Conservative prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was interrupted on the hustings by a leather-lunged heckler, shouting: "I don't care what you say, John. My father was a Grit, my grandfather was a Grit and by golly, I'm a Grit, too." To which Sir John responded: "I take it that if your father and grandfather were [...]
Following the U.S. election on Nov. 2, and the extensive discussion of the role of pro-life, socially conservative and religious voters played in the electoral success of the Republican Party, Conservative party leader Stephen Harper demonstrated an obtuse inability to learn from success. Harper said that the United States and Canada are quite different countries and that trying to build a coalition [...]
'Values voters' made the difference in the vote Almost immediately following the Nov. 2 elections, the political left and their media allies began to blame socially conservative voters for the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry. To cite just one example, a Chicago Tribune cover story was headlined, "Bush rides moral issues, terror fears to second term." Some on the [...]
I reluctantly tuned in to the third and last debate between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush. I was afraid they might have gotten into a fist fight. Well, nothing exciting like that happened. However, a lot of curious things did happen. There was a subtle attempt by both Bush and Kerry to grab the Catholic and evangelical Protestant vote. [...]
On these pages, in my last column, I came down pretty hard on the mainstream political parties. Someone might even think I'll never vote again, or, at the very least, never vote for traditional parties. Don't get me wrong. I am not abandoning the Canadian political scene. It is just my frustrations are exactly what is causing so many other folks to [...]
When federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler announced recently that the pool of potential candidates for the two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Canada was "an embarrassment of riches," he got it partly right. A total embarrassment for the Canadian people that the choices that the "pool" for judges shrunk to Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella, two left-leaning radical feminists who favour [...]
The delegates at the last general council of the PQ voted Aug. 29, largely against the launching of a new leadership race in which Bernard Landry would be challenged as the PQ leader. That is not necessarily good news for the separatist party and its renewal. Bernard Landry, 67, was close to René Lévesque at the foundation of the PQ more than [...]
In September, the Ontario Progressive Conservative party chose socially liberal John Tory over two self-described pro-lifers, to be its new leader. But small-c conservatives say that Tory's social liberalism and unimpressive track record could be liabilities in Ontario's October 2007 provincial election. Tory narrowly defeated former finance minister and Whitby-Ajax MPP Jim Flaherty 54 per cent to 46 per cent on the [...]
Because family and work are sources of stability and dignity, I support welfare reform that strengthens family and requires work. Because a caring society will value its weakest members, we must make a place for the unborn child. Because - because religious charities provide a safety net of mercy and compassion, our government must never discriminate against them. Because the union of [...]
On Nov. 2, Americans will go to the polls to elect a president, 435 representatives and one-third of the Senate, not to mention thousands of state and local level politicians. With fewer than 30 Congressional races considered close and only a dozen Senate races being seriously contested, most of the attention is on the presidential race. This is especially true for pro-life [...]
Prime Minister Paul Martin could hardly have made two worse appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada than Madam Justice Rosalie Abella and Madam Justice Louise Charron. As judges on the Ontario Court of Appeal, this pair of judicial activists has demonstrated supreme contempt for both democracy and the rule of law. Consider Abella's ruling in R. v. C.M., 1995 OCA - [...]
Politics and ideology swayed selections, suggests senior journalist In response to Prime Minister Paul Martin's call to close the "democratic deficit," Liberal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler introduced parliamentary hearings into the appointments of the two newest justices of the Supreme Court. Canada's mainstream and supposedly objective media, drawing its story line directly from Liberal party talking points once again, reported in late [...]
Joseph Goebbels famously said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will begin to believe it. When it comes to the media narrative of the 2004 federal election, it has been repeated so often that despite obvious errors of fact and interpretation, it has become a truism that social conservatives cost the Conservative party its chance to form the government. [...]
Rule #2: Losers Pay In almost every case cited last month, the money that allowed lawyers and judges to re-write Canada's social rubric, divine the intent of the original authors and thumb their noses at social conservatives, came from, you guessed it, the Canadian taxpayer. Of course the official line is that the money came from our civil government - but everybody [...]
LifeSite Daily News The legal counsel for both the Catholic church in Canada and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada were asked to be present at a meeting with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in early March. Janet Buckingham, legal counsel for the EFC, and Jennifer Leddy, legal counsel for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, were warned by revenue officials that [...]