When I spoke with CHP Canada's deputy leader, Rod Taylor, after his recent speaking tour through southern BC and the Fraser Valley, a comment he said he'd heard frequently from BC pro-lifers stuck in my craw.

"Often they didn't want to oppose the local MP," Rod reported. "Many said, 'Although the Conservative Party hasn't done anything to protect innocent lives, we think he's a good man.'"

It reminds me of an often-quoted epigram by the great Irish parliamentarian, Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

But Burke was wrong. If he does nothing about the most important moral issue of the day, how can an MP be called "a good man"? Good men (and women) don't "do nothing"—even if their leader announces, (as Stephen Harper has,) "I will use whatever influence I have to ensure that no legislation on abortion comes into Parliament," and, "the abortion issue is settled." It's not settled: polls show that a majority of Canadians want some restrictions on abortion. But Canada has no abortion law at all! (Most Canadians don't know that, because what RoadKillRadio.com calls "the downstream media"—monolithically pro-abortion-refuses to inform them.)

The Prime Minister's pledge of inaction is a disgrace, and any so-called pro-lifer who lines up behind him should spend some time on an analyst's couch!

Rod also heard, "A vote for the CHP is wasted if that candidate doesn't win," and, "what good will my one vote do?"

But even if the CHP candidate doesn't win, voting for the only pro-life party is the only way to budge the timid federal Tory policy wonks! Even a ten percent shift in the vote would wake them up, and so-called "pro-life" Tories would soon be on their feet in caucus meetings, yelling, "We've got to start taking the life issues seriously!"

Burke was wrong. So is Stephen Harper. And so are all the so-called "good men" who hide with him behind a veil of cowardice.