On June 28th, Canadian voters went to the polls and delivered a message that was clearly ambiguous. The Liberals have a mandate and a minority, the NDP have leverage despite loss, and the Conservatives have an underwhelming admixture of improved standings that did not match expectations. If there was any clear victory on election night, it was for the defenders of life. [...]
Martin's abortion attacks 'a miserable failure' Analysis by Paul Tuns The Interim Following a campaign that saw the topic of abortion raised to a prominence not seen in recent elections, pro-lifers can count on nearly a dozen new pro-life MPs taking up the cause in the next Parliament. While some social conservatives may be disappointed that Paul Martin won a sizeable minority, [...]
Ontario shaping up as a key battleground More than 40 pro-life MPs may be elected By Paul Tuns The InterimCanadians will go to the polls on June 28 and pro-life leaders are excited about the opportunities to increase the number of MPs who will defend the sanctity of human life in the political arena. According to the Campaign Life Coalition Voter's Guide [...]
Commentary by Donald DeMarco The Interim We like to think that scientists are people of unswerving integrity who report what they find without being unduly influenced by current fashions. Politicians, journalists, educators, religious leaders, businessmen, and sales personnel of every stripe may blow in the wind, but scientists, so we want to believe, are pillars of professional integrity. Unfortunately, though it should [...]
Jean Chretien was a scandalous prime minister. Adscam (the sponsorship scandal) has abundantly bore that out. He was everything Brian Mulroney was - and worse. Is Paul Martin any better? He's less brazen, but in my estimation, he is a party man - a Liberal, and that's enough. Yes, it is a case of guilt by association, and with good cause. Neither [...]
On April 15, Svend Robinson (NDP, Burnaby-Douglas), Canada's first openly homosexual MP, called a press conference where he tearfully told the nation he had "inexplicably" stolen a piece of jewelry on Good Friday and then explained it was due to the stress and poor health that he has suffered since a "hiking accident" in 1997. Effective immediately, he was taking a medical [...]
Perhaps, the New Democratic Party should change its name to the No Democracy Party. The Interim has obtained the official party response to questionnaires sent by Campaign Life Coalition and Life Ethics Educational Association to all federal candidates and the NDP are requiring strict adherence to their pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia and pro same-sex "marriage" positions. Windsor-area NDP MP Brian Masse apparently forwarded his [...]
Commentary By Suzanne Fortin The InterimIn my experience, most pro-lifers don't vote according to their pro-life values. During an election, the majority of pro-lifers look for the party or the politician who offers the best overall "package;" that is, the best policies and the greatest ability to govern and represent their interests. In their minds, pro-lifers place various economic, social and political [...]
French Canadians have the habit of easy and quick canonization. After Claude Ryan's death on Feb. 9, the whole nation praised the journalist and politician, from Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal to Quebec Premier Jean Charest. Many journalists participated, particularly from Le Devoir. Even the PQ leader, Bernard Landry, and the former PQ leader, Lucien Bouchard, were at the funeral. There was [...]
I answered the door and there was Prime Minister Paul Martin standing there. I expected him to be on time. "Are you the wise old sage I've been told can help me with the political disasters I'm facing?" "Wise old sage?" I laughed. "I've been called worse things than that. I give advice to politicians and sometimes they act on it and [...]
With a federal election just around the corner, Canada's political parties are busy churning out new slogans. If past elections are any indication, we'll soon be called to "Make Our Voice Heard" "For A Positive Future" since now is "A Time For Change." While the slogans will all be different, you can be sure they'll all be similarly meaningless. But what if [...]
In Uncertainty reigned during heavy voting at the packed Oasis Convention Centre in Mississauga on March 11. Every parking spot for blocks around the centre was taken as a mass of over 1,800 voters flowed in and out of the building. At stake was the Liberal nomination for the riding of Mississauga South and the future political career of thrice-elected, pro-life, pro-family [...]
After weeks of lawlessness by municipal officials in granting illegal marriage licences, U.S. President George W. Bush announced on Feb. 24 that he will seek to amend the U.S. Constitution to enshrine the traditional definition of marriage in the highest law of the land, making it impervious to judicial challenges and the actions of individual states. The proposed 28th amendment would require [...]
In recent weeks, there have been numerous nomination meetings across the country and we are both surprised and pleased with the number of pro-life candidates who are winning their respective party's nominations. We are pleased for obvious reasons: the more pro-life candidates there are, the greater the chance of electing more pro-life MPs, and the more pro-life MPs there are in Parliament, [...]
Catholic journalist and apologist Mark Shea is a good acquaintance, really, but when he gets a bug in his bonnet, the results are rarely pleasant. Lately, on his immensely popular website, he's taken to railing against the "blasphemous individualism" of libertarianism - an ideology for "selfish people with no kids." When readers of a laissez faire bent protested the generalization by pointing [...]