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“Women’s Rights Not at the Expense of Human Rights”
NGO in SPECIAL consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
P R E S S R E L E A S E
The Bizarre 2004 Election
For immediate release Ottawa, June 29, 2004
Canadians have put up with a lot these last ten years under the Liberal government. We’ve paid the highest taxes in the industrialized world, we’ve experienced corruption by way of taxpayers’ money used to line the pockets of their special friends. We’ve endured the Prime Minister’s autocratic ways in completely controlling the reigns of power, including the prohibition of any independence on the part of his Caucus. Canadians have no input in the development of Liberal policy, whether child pornography, decriminalization of marijuana, the age of consent, or same-sex marriage. It’s all decided by the Prime Minister and his paid advisors who demand absolute obedience.
The Liberals managed to convince the voters to forget all this pain during the election by their attack ads on the Conservatives – suggesting the latter had a scary “hidden agenda”. This may well have contributed to the Liberal win. The results were disappointing, but not unexpected.
The results of the 2004 election will now permit the Liberals to continue unabated with their usual abuse of Canadian taxpayers. Fortunately, there is at least one comfort with this minority government. The Liberal Caucus, because of the close election, includes MPs who may now have the backbone to stand up to the Prime Minister and his dictatorial ways for once, since the Prime Minister needs every one of them to maintain his narrow hold on power.
Moreover, things are not settled yet. The tensions are palatable within Parliament and the public. A minority government means instability and we will no doubt be voting again sooner, rather than later.
In the meantime, a new political universe will unfold. REAL Women of Canada National President, Lorraine McNamara, said, “REAL Women is willing, as it has been in the past, to work with any political party. We will continue our efforts with the large number of pro-family Liberal MPs who were elected. We hope that the Liberals’ scare in this election may make them more sensitive to these caucus members, as well as to the sensibilities of the public.”
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For further information contact:
Diane Watts
Researcher
(613) 236-4001
June 29, 2004
Four points on the election
There was remarkably little change across the country. The Liberals lost only a little around the edges on all sides. The power of the Prime Minister's Office and the Supreme Court remain intact.
The need is more urgent than ever for western provinces, especially Alberta, to assert their constitutional rights. This calls for coherent leadership from Premier Klein on the Alberta Agenda.
Martin's hold on the 38th Parliament is weak. Federal Conservatives must keep pushing the Liberals to the left, by exploiting winnable issues like gun control, gay marriage, tax cuts, provincial flexibility on medicare, and parliamentary reform.
The Conservatives did better than anyone would have expected three months ago. However, they can't win the country simply because Canadians are angry at the Liberals. Canadians need to see a clearly articulated vision of a free and democratic Canada. The work of the Citizens Centre has never been more important.
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LIFESITE DAILY NEWS - TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2004
Cheryl Gallant, the MP Most Bashed Over Pro-Life Stand Re-Elected by a Landslide
RENFREW, June 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Of all MPs bashed during this election, Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant likely received the worst treatment by the media and the Prime Minister himself, harassing her for her outspokenly pro-life statements prior to the election. Despite the demonizing, Gallant trounced all competition winning 10% more seats than all her competitors combined.
Gallant received 27,494 votes (55.1%), while her closest competitor, Liberal Rob Jamieson received only 14,806 (29.7%) votes. Of note, Jamieson did not fill out a pro-life questionnaire but admitted at an all candidates' debate he supported abortion. "I believe that a woman has the right to choose," he said in a debate in Barry's Bay Ontario.
While the country had a voter turnout of 60%, Gallant's riding saw a 67.5% voter turnout.
Hundreds of articles in the press, and countless radio and television broadcasts reiterated Prime Minister Paul Martin's condemnation of Gallant's pro-life statements. Early in June, on his way to Georgia for the G-8 Summit, Martin took time to condemn Gallant for remarks she made at the Ottawa March for Life weeks before the election on May 13.
Gallant had compared the beheading of American Nick Berg by terrorists, which she said in a respectful hushed tone, "the entire civilized world was horrified" at, to the killing of living children in the womb, which often takes place by dismemberment. She concluded saying "What's happening over there (Iraq) is absolutely no different. 35 years, 2 million missing children; that's an entire generation."
Martin called Gallant's remarks "abhorrent" and slammed Conservative Leader Harper for refusing to denounce Gallant. "I've got to say that if anybody in my party made an extreme statement such as that, I would have spoken out immediately against that statement," said Martin.
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CANADIAN ELECTION 2004 BUZZ
* See LifeSite's Election 2001 Analysis. Notable is that many things said then
can once again be said of the 2004 election. The Conservative (Reform, Alliance)
Party strategists' repeated strategy of running away from the social issues
has hurt them badly again and again and....
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/nov/001129a.html
* The CLC candidate evaluations database will be updated this evening to indicate the winners in each riding. By tomorrow the database will also indicate the votes received by each candidate. See http://campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/federal/2004/
* ELECTION RESULTS
National
LIB - 135
CPC - 99
BLOC - 54
NDP - 19
IND - 1
Ontario
Lib - 75
CPC - 24
NDP - 7
GRN - 0
Big Bad Toronto
LIB - 22
PC - 0
NDP - 1
* All the pro-life Conservative MPs were re-elected and additional pro-life
Conservative candidates were elected. Numbers on this are not yet finalized
but the propaganda that being pro-life, pro-family is a handicap was trashed
yet again by reality.
* All but two of the outspokenly pro-life Liberals were re-elected, with huge
margins. Being openly pro-life and pro-family with the voters and opposed to
their leader's totalitarian policy did not hurt them the slightest at the polls.
Many of the Conservative candidates, the same as many of the failed predecessor
Reform/Alliance candidates, once again ran away from telling the public their
positions on life and family. Hence, voters were easily manipulated, again,
to believe false charges of "a hidden agenda".
* Pro-Life Liberal MP Yanko Peric was defeated by pro-life Conservative Gary Goodyear in the Cambridge riding. Pro-life Liberal MP John O'Reilly was defeated by CPC Candidate Barry Devolin who was rated as "not pro-life".
* The replacement candidate for retired pro-life Conservative Elsie Wayne was defeated by a pro-life Liberal.
* 123 CPC candidates did not complete the CLC questionnaire by election day. Most were refusing to do so. Social conservative voters were dismayed. 45 of the 106 Ontario CPC candidates did not return the questionnaire. This left pro-life leaders without anything useful to give social conservative voters as a compelling reason to switch parties and support certain CPC candidates.
* Solidly pro-life former Tory MP Rob Nicholson made a comeback win in Niagara Falls.
* Catholic Liberal MP Dennis Mills has strongly avoided addressing the life
and family issues in recent years and during this election. Had he publicly
taken a position in favour of life and family he would undoubtedly have gained
the support and extra votes required to defeat NDP leader Jack Layton.
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New Brunswick Tory MP Who Switched to Liberals over Social Conservatism Loses Seat
FUNDY, June 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - John Herron, the pro-abortion former Tory MP who upon the merger of the Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives jumped to the Liberals saying, "as a Red Tory, the Martin Liberals represent my values and vision for the future of Canada," has lost his seat in Parliament to a Conservative who considers himself 'pro-life'.
Conservative candidate Rob Moore won the seat with 45% of the vote compared to Herron's 35%.
The Campaign Life Coalition analysis said of Moore "he would be inclined to support pro-life legislation, provided majority of constituents agree," and that he "favours traditional definition of marriage". Meanwhile Herron is listed as having a pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia voting record as well as having supported the Bill C-250 hate crime legislation.
However, things did not go so well for family values in neighboring Nova Scotia where homosexual activist MP Scott Brison was re-elected. Brison, like Herron, switched from Tory to Liberal after the Alliance-Conservative merger over social conservatism. Notably however, Brison's Conservative competition in Kings-Hants, Bob Mullan gave no indication of being pro-life.
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EDMONTON JOURNAL
Martin's victory was a triumph for fear, not solid ideas: Shameful tactics of
the Liberals led Ontario to stigmatize the West
Tuesday 29 June 2004
p. A18
I'm disgusted. There's no other way to describe my reaction.
I could be nice. I could be a good sport. I could congratulate the Liberals. But I'd be lying.
This was not a victory for solid ideas. This was a triumph for fear.
Once again the Liberals have succeeded in convincing Ontarians to distrust the main opposition party because it was led by a westerner. Once again the Liberals convinced Ontarians to dread change, to look not at policies and platforms but to vote according to their prejudices.
The Liberals had no solid positive theme to their campaign.
Yes, Paul Martin promised to save health care. But I defy anyone to describe in detail how he plans to make his save. Oh, yes, and the Liberals are going to erect some windmills to generate environmentally friendly electricity and spend a bomb on a national day-care strategy that almost no voters were clamouring for.
But mostly the Liberals have concentrated solely on stopping the Conservatives, solely on portraying the Conservatives as un-Canadian. And, at least in Ontario, it has worked -- again.
This is the reverse of the 1997 campaign when the Reform party ran its infamous "no more Quebec leaders" ad. In that one, Reform tried to scare Ontarians away from the Liberals by pointing out the regional origins of most of their leaders.
Ontarians balked at such a naked attempt to stigmatize one region. But many Ontarians seem to have no similar disgust at stigmatizing the West.
True enough, the Liberals attempt to stigmatize the Conservatives as too western to be trusted in office was not entirely barefaced (nothing Liberal every is). But nonetheless it was real. The way they focused during the final week of the campaign on bashing Alberta Premier Ralph Klein for health reforms he hadn't even released mirrored their dishonest 2000 ads claiming that Alberta already had a two-tiered health system where the rich got faster treatment.
It was deceitful then and it was deceitful this time, too. And it was the third election in a row the Liberals clung to power using this despicable ploy.
Not all Ontarians, of course, were robotically mesmerized. Millions saw through the Liberals' shameful tactics, voted for and elected Conservatives and New Democrats, despite the Grits' scare-mongering.
Ontario didn't vote 51.5 per cent for the Liberals this time (more like about 43 per cent at filing deadline). And they didn't vote en bloc for the Liberals. The Conservatives have finally made some real breakthroughs in Ontario, perhaps two dozen seats.
And maybe it's not Liberal Ontarians at all who succeeded in repelling the Conservatives. Maybe it's old Progressive Conservatives who followed Joe Clark to the Liberals. The new Conservatives had about 31 per cent of the Ontario vote, a drop of seven per cent from the combined Tory and Alliance votes in the last election. Perhaps the Libs lost lots of Ontario voters from last time around, but picked up half as many as they lost from among old red Tories who heeded the false warnings that Stephen Harper was "too extreme," and chose Liberal corruption and waste over the possibility that the Conservatives might allow a free vote on a private member's bill on abortion (almost no chance of passing) and might use the charter's notwithstanding clause to block same-sex marriage.
Unbelievable.
Really, when you think about it, it is utterly staggering that the Liberals' record of corruption and mismanagement, their neglect of our international stature and national security, their vacuous and disorganized campaign weren't enough to trump the fear in four out of 10 Ontarians' minds on two tangential social issues.
There is even the likelihood that the Liberals will do more of the same again this term -- corruption-wise. They will see this vote as a vindication of their non-efforts to get to the bottom of Adscam. We may never know what happened for sure. And remember, Paul Martin claims not to have seen his colleagues stealing $100 million last time, so it's unlikely he'll see future attempts to do the same.
I recall vividly the anger in the West with the result last time when we only suspected the Liberals were crooks. This time we, all Canadians, had proof and still Ontario sent the Liberals back into power.
Even more frightening, this time they sent them to Ottawa in a minority held in power by the NDP. The last time this happened -- 1972 to 1974 -- was disastrous for Canada and for the West. It took two decades to dig out from under the debt and regulation piled up in those two years.
We got unfunded universal pensions, the Foreign Investment Review Agency, Petro-Canada and a greatly expanded role for the CRTC. We saw an end to balanced budgets for 23 years and we saw Pierre Trudeau cede control over energy policy to David Lewis and the NDP, who then blocked all attempts by the Alberta government to obtain the world price for oil and gas.
We pundits got it terribly wrong this time. The pollsters got it just as wrong, too.
In the end, one in five voters decided Sunday or Monday how they would vote,
and they swallowed the Liberals' scare-mongering, whole.
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Lorne Gunter
Columnist, Edmonton Journal
Editorial Board Member, National Post
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From: Canadian Physicians for Life
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: CMA Doctors: Women Deserve to Know Facts on Fetal Development,
Abortion Pain
(Note: With regards to fetal pain and late-term abortions, many Canadians
are not aware that late-term abortions happen in Canada. This is no doubt
due to the fact that this information is not readily available. A few months
ago, while looking into the 2001 abortion statistics which had just been
released, I found out from Statistics Canada that of the abortions for which
Stats Can has information on gestational age (less than 50,000, which is
less than half the total number of abortions), 246 abortions occurred
between the gestational ages of 21 and 40 weeks--note that this information
was not released to the general public and I only found out about it by
specifically asking Stats Can, "How many abortions happened between 21
and
40 weeks?" We have no information on gestational age for more than 50,000
abortions occurring in 2001. This is because abortion providers do not have
to provide details regarding the abortions they perform. When the Supreme
Court struck down the abortion law in 1988, reporting of this information
became optional. So we understand very little about the abortions occurring
in Canada. Dr. Paul Ranalli, a neurologist in Toronto, was a guest on Lorna
Dueck's show "Listen Up" on Global TV this morning and I am glad he
brought
up this issue of fetal pain. It is important for Canadians to be made aware
of the suffering inflicted on some members of our society in the name of
other members' so-called "right to choose." ....Barbara McAdorey,
Administrator, CPL)
CMA Doctors: Women Deserve to Know Facts on Fetal Development, Abortion Pain
Washington, DC, June 22, 2004--Citing the medical principle of informed
consent, the Christian Medical Association (www.cmawashington.org), the
nation's largest faith-based organization of physicians, today asserted that
women deserve to know the medical facts about fetal development and
abortion-induced fetal pain. Such facts are key to court cases on the
partial-birth abortion ban and to federal legislation that would require
telling women considering an abortion after 20 weeks gestation the full
facts about the pain her baby would experience.
CMA Executive Director Dr. David Stevens observed, "The medical principle
of
informed consent requires that patients receive a complete and candid
presentation of the facts. That's why we physicians applaud Congressman
Smith, Senators Brownback and Alexander and other leaders who have helped
introduce the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. Women simply deserve to know
all the facts before making a decision."
Dr. Stevens added, "The medical evidence shows that a partial-birth abortion
inflicts cruel and horrific pain on a conscious baby. Yet the arguments of
abortionists in these cases reveal deep callousness and a determination to
keep the facts from their patients." Stevens cited testimony taken from
the
March 31 transcript of opening arguments by plaintiffs in National Abortion
Federation v. Ashcroft in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of New York.
"A doctor called by abortion groups testified that the pain he is causing
a
baby during an abortion never crosses his mind. I can assure you that this
question crosses the mind of many of the women under his knife. This case
has revealed what abortionists and abortion rights lobbyists have tried so
hard to hide from women--that abortion stops a beating heart in the most
painful, gruesome manner imaginable. It's time the truth be told."
Dr. Gene Rudd, an obstetrician-gynecologist and CMA Associate Executive
Director, said, "Court and congressional testimony by experts including
Dr.
Jean Wright indicates that sensory perception appears on the face of the
human fetus in the seventh week of development, and over their entire body
by the 20th week. Studies reveal that newborns not only feel pain; they
react to pain with three to five times more sensitivity than adults."
Dr. Rudd added, "Medical science since Roe v Wade in 1973 and new technology
such as '4-D' ultrasound and in-utero surgery are yielding new light on the
miracle and wonder within the womb. These technologies and facts on fetal
pain are helping more women to realize that the life they hold within them
is wonderful and precious."
To schedule an interview please contact Margie Shealy at (423) 844-1047 or
by e-mail: margie@cmdahome.org. The Christian Medical Association is
equipped with Ku Band Digital Uplink satellite and ISDN lines.
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Web site: www.cmdahome.org
Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.lifeissues.net)
This week we have good news concerning the protection of human life from Uruguay and Portugal by good, ordinary people.
Uruguay rejects abortion legalization. This South American nation had pro-life people internationally praying very hard this last month. In its parliament, the House had passed a bill to allow abortion-on-demand. It would have legalized abortion for any reason during the first three months. It defined abortion as a "medical act" and limited conscientious objection by health professionals. Further, it required all health facilities to provide abortions. Not surprisingly, they pulled out the old, big lie, stating that there were tens of thousands of illegal abortions in their country each year and that women often die from them.
The fact that none of the above is true and that while there are illegal abortions, they are a relatively small number, was not reported in the press. But, good news -- the Uruguay Senate on May 4th, voted 17 to 13 to defeat the bill. This keeps South and Central America with a clean slate. Every country still protects unborn life except Cuba and Puerto Rico (which operates under U.S. law).
Portugal votes and people speak: "Continue Pro-Life Laws". Portuguese Parliament voted to keep laws protecting unborn babies. A move had been made to legalize abortion; in response, pro-life groups presented nearly 200,000 petitions to the members of parliament encouraging them to maintain the present protective laws. Pro-abortion advocates had collected 121,000 signatures. The proposed law would have allowed abortion-on-demand until three months and, under special circumstances, until six. They also voted against placing the proposal on a national referendum ballot.
Theresa Ares deCampos told a news conference: "The solution for a woman in difficult should never be the death of her unborn child. We want to create a society where a newborn child is never seen as a burden that needs to be eliminated. We want to create a country where a child is always welcome."
Have a nice weekend!
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
"Humane and just punishment ought to be medicinal, restorative, rehabilitative
and healing: to give a chance to the offenders to change." (Fausto B. Gomez)
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TOPReflections on what is happening.
In 1989 the United Nations declared that Canada was no longer a Christian country and it truly show in the results of this election. For all the fearmongering by Paul Martin and the Liberals as well as the strident idealogy of the NDP that supports abortion, anywhere, anytime for any reason, should have driven Christian voters to the Conservatives despite the media spin. It did not happen. Why, perhaps because for the most part NS society is Christian only in name and not in substance.
The best the Liberals and the NDP can offer a pregnant woman is to kill her child and have taxpayers fund the destruction and if she decides to keep the child to raise it in a government sponsored daycare institution. There is something wrong with this picture, don't you think?
The Conservatives on the other hand had some excellent candidates running in this election in NS but failed to capitalize on the support that was offered. When the national scene is analysed, it can be said where a pro-life candidate articulated his/her position well they were elected, no matter which party the ran with. This has been the general scene in the US as well. Being able to articulate the respect for life is a true mark of a statesmen that can be trusted. Hopefully, in the next election those candidates who were pro-life will be able to take a stand to defend life and family.
When we reflect back on the political scene in our Country for the past 20 years, we have seen pornographers virually protected from proscecution on the internet. (Now over 1 Million porno sites on the Internet). The age of sodomy reduced from 18 years of age to 14. No protection whatsoever for unborn children. The advancement of homosexual marriages as equal to heterosexual marriages. Vasectomies covered by health plans, morning after pills, embryo experimentation, cannabalization of human fetuses, late term abortions, increases in breast cancer and denials by government and media and the list goes on.
Kerby Anderson in his article at Probe Ministeries, "When Nations Die" spells out quite nicely what is taking place in our society has happened before and is unfolding as it has in the past. Our nation, our society is dying and becoming weak, because of the weakening of the traditional family, the desire not to have children, and the acceptance as homosexuality and sexual mores run loose. You may wish to read and article "Crisis of the Century", that sums up the observations put forth by noted experts who have studied the death of societies.
Nevertheless, we must continue to seek the higher ground in the saving of unborn children from the hands of abortionist and in doing so improve the nation. For a nation that honors and protects children, is a nation worth fighting for. We must save the family, for as the family goes, so goes the nation.
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