CHP
Commentary

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.

Governments—led by globalists like the World Economic Forum and multinational investment management corporations like Black Rock, State Street and Vanguard—have eagerly poured taxpayers’ and investors’ money into the United Nations’ new scheme to expand its authority into an unelected world government, accountable to no one. Big investors like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are buying up farmland in North America and taking much of it out of production. Why?

Popular belief is that politicians don’t keep their word. And I suppose that has often been the case. Then again, sometimes the world would be better off if some politicians broke some of their promises. But that would depend on which ones they keep and which ones they break. In my opinion, they often keep the wrong ones.

At our recent convention, the delegates of the Christian Heritage Party approved a resolution that acknowledged that there are times when it is appropriate for Canadians to protest injustice and oppression. It wasn’t merely a suggestion; it was called a “civil duty.” Where do we get the idea that it’s a “duty,” and why do we support the March for Life but object to violent, ethnically-focused pro-Palestinian protests?