BY PAUL TUNS
Campaign Life Coalition premiered a 90-minute documentary on Canada’s pro-abortion foreign policy on Jan. 17. Obsessed: Canada’s Obsessed Coercive Diplomacy, is a professionally produced program that examines the Justin Trudeau government’s international abortion advocacy and features an in-depth and eye-opening conversation between former Canadian ambassador to China, David Mulroney, and African pro-life leader, Obianuju Ekeocha. CLC said in a statement that, “this is a perspective on Canada’s foreign policy you will not get anywhere else.”
CLC vice president Matthew Wojciechowski, who spear-headed the project,” told The Interim that “Canadians do not understand that Canada’s foreign aid program is coercive at its very core.” He said that Ekeocha explains how it is coercive on the ground, while Mulroney puts the ideology behind the global abortion agenda in perspective.
Ekeocha says in the documentary that Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes International (now MSI) and other abortionists are disproportionately funded by Canada, and they come into African communities pushing abortion, contraception, and sexual promiscuity. Under Trudeau, spending for his so-called Feminist International Assistance Policy, has been ramped up to more than a billion dollars annually. Ekeocha said that African communities in desperate need of nutrition, medical care, sanitation, and employment are instead offered interventions that have nothing to do with what is desperately needed and are at odds with local customs and morals. She lamented, “Can’t they see we don’t even have food to eat?” Sometimes, Ekeocha said, abortion and contraception is foisted upon women under false pretenses or as a condition for much-needed humanitarian relief.
Western donors like the Canadian government, “are not listening to Africans,” Ekeocha said. “They are really trying to create a new regime in their image and likeness.” This includes aborting African babies, sterilizing African women, sexualizing African children and teens, manipulating African politics, and rewriting African laws. A portion of Canada’s billion-dollar feminist foreign aid program goes to working with pro-abortion partners to challenge local customs and lobby for changes in the legal status of abortion. Campaign Life Coalition calls this “ideological colonialism.” Ekeocha said, “Africans already have their thoughts and views and values on these things.” The documentary proves the point by quoting a Pew Research poll showing that between 70 and 90 per cent of people in various African countries oppose abortion.
The Trudeau government, CLC noted in an email to supporters, does not even try to hide its agenda. Launching the Feminist International Assistance Policy, the government stated that Canada’s goal is to change Africa’s culture and society: “We require the transformation of social norms and power relations. This objective is also essential for the achievement of all other development priorities.”
In the documentary, Mulroney interviews Ekeocha and adds his own insights on the Trudeau government’s actions, including some unflattering comparisons to Red China, where Mulroney served as Canada’s ambassador when Stephen Harper was prime minister.
Mulroney noted that while Trudeau’s feminist foreign policy is new, the population control agenda is rooted in “misguided progressive movements” that are often “associated with eugenics” and “obsessed with bringing the gospel of population control to China, India and African, but the view seems to be that you could solve the problems of China, India and Africa, if there were a lot fewer Chinese, Indians, and Africans.”
Ekeocha said she believes that “thinking is at the core” of many development projects. “They have perfumed it with the language of progress,” she said, to make their discredited eugenic ideas respectable again.
The video is available for free viewing on Campaign Life Coalition’s YouTube channel.
CLC also launched a petition and postcard campaign directed at Canada’s Minister of International Development MP Karina Gould urging the government to cease its aggressive and expensive global abortion agenda.
