CHP
Commentary

Here in Canada at the beginning of 2025, we have our own drama unfolding with our Prime Minister “stepping down”, a process that looks like it will take him at least 2 ½ months. And he has taken the unusual step of proroguing Parliament; it is truly “closed for the season”

I was four years old when Pierre Trudeau was elected to lead this nation, I didn’t much like him then, and my view of the man hasn’t changed much over the years.

In seasonal exchanges around Christmastime and at the end of the Old Year, we commonly wish each other a ‘Happy New Year!’

As people go about their business, “running to and fro,” and politicians continue to probe and meddle in other peoples’ business, we come to that interesting and wonderful season where many folks—including self-identified unbelievers—are willing to embrace, for a short time, the Christmas story about the Son of God who lay for a short time in a manger . . . every bit human and every bit Divine.

These are very important days for believers. We can see international trends running in favour of the scriptural faith—but there are also countervailing tides running against the faith. It’s important to be able to discern the differences, and to be willing to take a stand for the eternal truth, and against its adversaries.

What a beautiful Christmas gift we’ve been given by 35 municipalities across Canada. December’s joyous Christian celebration of God’s incarnation has been recognized as “Christian Heritage Month.”

With the terrible damage our current Prime Minister and his cabinet and caucus have done over the past few years, it might come as some relief that they—along with their left-leaning colleagues in the opposition parties—have been frozen in time and unable to “get on with the business of Parliament” for some weeks now.

Last year, we asked our members and other concerned citizens to join us in our challenge against the City of Hamilton in a Judicial Review. We are grateful for all who did. Many of you shared our outrage that an innocuous poster showing a woman smiling and the words, “Woman: An Adult Female” would be rejected by the City and disallowed on their bus shelters. But that’s what happened.

What a ludicrous question is the one CHP answered in our “Woman: An Adult Female” poster. Who doesn’t know what a woman is? Sadly, Canada, alongside many other countries, has rejected common sense on the question and may soon have laws that could prevent us from even asking the question.

The Judicial Review of CHP Canada vs. The City of Hamilton took place on October 28 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. It was overseen by 3 judges, very much like the Judicial Review of 2018—with the difference being that this review took place by Zoom rather than in person.

We hear it all the time: “Don’t split the vote!” Perhaps it’s time we started saying that ourselves. When the naysayers who tell our fellow-citizens not to vote for the CHP because it might “split the vote”, they mean that it will reduce the votes for the 2nd-best candidate on the ballot . . . or in some cases for the lesser of two evils.

All of us in the Christian Heritage Party dream of Canada returning to its original Christian heritage. At times it seems like an impossible task as we are assaulted daily with ever more obnoxious forms of woke mindlessness. And yet, there is a country that was much further down the road to perdition than Canada, where priests were murdered, Christians assaulted, churches turned into stables and women forced into industry.