CHP
Commentary

One requirement for becoming a candidate in a Canadian federal election is to obtain a minimum of 100 signatures of “qualified electors consenting to the nomination”.

When people refer to the “news networks,” they’re being generous. They are networks but the “news” is still whatever the editors, publishers, and producers want the voting public to think about.

For some of us, the writ dropped and… life went on as usual. For some of us, the writ dropped and we jumped into high gear on an election campaign. Our CHP members and supporters, fall somewhere between these two opposite ends of the electoral activity spectrum.

August 6th was the first debate between the party leaders. Well, four of them anyway. At least thirteen party leaders were not invited. The four main topics that were covered in this debate were: the economy, the environment and energy, the state of our democracy, and foreign policy and security.

Since the major national media forgot to call the leader of the Christian Heritage Party to ask my opinion about what will be one of the longest election campaigns in Canadian history, I am offering this public response to the unnecessarily premature launch of Election 2015.

Responding to yesterday’s announcement that Health Canada has approved the controversial abortifacient drug RU-486 (mifepristone), Christian Heritage Party leader, Rod Taylor, says it’s time for Prime Minister Harper and Health Minister Rona Ambrose to rein in bureaucrats who are implementing a radical social agenda with the apparent consent or approval of the government.

The other day, after reading that Ontario’s debt has now doubled California’s debt, my wife wanted to do a calculation as to how much debt each Canadian theoretically owes.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen several news items to which all decent human beings have reacted with horror.

Our Canadian medical system issuing “virginity certificates” for Canadian daughters is almost as bizarre as our Canadian medical system refusing to inform parents of their daughter’s abortion.

For hundreds of years, citizens in western countries have looked to the courts for justice, for the unbiased application of law to individual cases. The appeal to the courts has been an appeal to impartiality, to accumulated wisdom and precedent.

Last week was “Pride Week” for many cities in North America. While many people, Christians included, have positive associations with pride (taking pride in our work, etc.) pride is actually a sin. Think about Proverbs, which warns us that pride goes before a fall.

OTTAWA, ON–As the 2015 federal election draws near, Vancouver Island MP James Lunney is warning Canadian Christians to take a stand for their beliefs.