CHP
Commentary

Democracy is a good deal better than dictatorship. At least our ancestors thought so and many died so that we could enjoy the privileges of citizenship in a democratic nation where most decisions are a group effort and national direction is guided in large part at the ballot box.

In terrifying news for all Canadians, we recently learned that an Edmonton judge has ordered a tried and convicted terrorist to be free to move about Canada.

Since becoming a Christian in 1976, I have understood that persecution of Christians would one day come to Canada.

The 1988 election was a referendum on free-trade and the 2004 election was a referendum on marriage; is this election a referendum too?

Imagine living in a place that is so dangerous and war-torn that you would take your family on an inflatable raft across a treacherous stretch of water at night so that your children could have a better life...

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.