Politics
Written on 30 Jun, 2005 at 8:16 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
Lawyers’ letter to parliamentarians on proposed same-sex ‘marriage’ bill
Gerald D. Chipeur et al
Special to The Interim
Dear Members of Parliament and Senators:
We, the undersigned legal counsel, maintain active practices or academic interest in litigation, human rights, religious, charity or constitutional law. We have reviewed two constitutional opinions provided by the law ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2005 at 8:08 in
Book Review, Politics | Author:
David Bolton
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get Itby Jim Wallis
Harper San Francisco
416 Pages, $32.95 (Cdn)
Review by David Bolton
The Interim
Jim Wallis is the founder and editor of the magazine Sojourners. He is also convener and president of Call to Renewal, an evangelical political action group created out of Wallis’s perceived need ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2005 at 8:02 in
Editorials, Politics | Author:
In recent years, we have witnessed the abuse of power by both Jean Chretien and Paul Martin’s Liberal governments in Ottawa. They have used that power to entrench themselves as the “Natural Governing Party,” reward their friends and foist upon this nation their own radical views. The scandal of Adscam and the scandal of redefining marriage are part of the same problem: the Liberal government ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2005 at 13:37 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
LifeSiteNews.com
Ken Dryden, the Liberal minister for social development, has been spearheading the Liberal party’s push to impose universal, publicly funded daycare, but his insistence on the intervention of the state in child-rearing has been a recent development. Dryden, in a speech in Saskatchewan in March 2002, sang ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2005 at 13:27 in
Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2005 at 13:26 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2005 at 13:25 in
Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2005 at 13:20 in
Abortion, Editorials, Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2005 at 13:18 in
Bits n' Pieces, Issues, Politics | Author:
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,” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2005 at 13:16 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2005 at 13:12 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Politics, Rory Leishman | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2005 at 13:07 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
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. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2005 at 13:05 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2005 at 12:53 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2005 at 12:50 in
Politics | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
