Jim Hnatiuk, leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, points out two recent developments within the gay, lesbian or bisexual (GLB) community that demand further investigation.

The first is a recent GLB complaint against Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, submitted to the Canadian Human Rights Commission last month.

In the complaint, the complainants say they don't receive equitable levels of programming support from Health Canada, compared with support for the general population or other minorities. The GLB complaint reveals a significant increase in health problems within the GLB communities. To quote only a few from their submission:

• "…gay/bisexual men have a life expectancy 20 years less than the average man in Canada";
• "..lesbians have higher rates of breast cancer"; and
• "within the area of HIV/AIDS that the inequities in Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada policies and programs vis-Ã -vis GLB people are most clearly illustrated… If one uses Statistic Canada's figure of 1.7% for the percentage of the population that is GLB…, the infection rate is 26 times higher than the general population."

Hnatiuk says it's important to place this within the context of a second recent development: a "Social Justice conference" staged by the BC Teachers' Federation at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford Feb. 20-21, 2009.

Although the stated purpose of that conference was to help teachers implement the Social Justice 12 curriculum adopted under BC's Corren Settlement Agreement, a disturbing hidden purpose was revealed by a graphic (see left) distributed by the BCTF in its information packages: the real goal is to move students' attitude towards LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning) people beyond "tolerance" to "acceptance"-and then to "support," "admiration," "appreciation" and finally "celebration".

Should Canadian students be taught to celebrate behaviour that the GLB community itself links to shorter life expectancy, higher rates of breast cancer, and an HIV/AIDS infection rate 26 times higher than the general population?

Demands for so-called 'gay rights' continue to have an enormous social impact on our nation. Therefore, CHP Canada believes Parliament must devote adequate time to examining the facts.

Both Liberal and Conservative governments broke their promises to Canadians, as neither ever authorized any real enquiry into the facts surrounding same-sex 'rights' demands. The Liberal government told Parliament "this government will never legalize same-sex marriage." (Justice Minister Anne McLellan, speaking in Parliament in 1999.) But they did exactly what they promised they would never do. The Conservatives promised to re-examine the issue. They didn't.

As in France, CHP Canada would appoint a Royal Commission, with the authority to do a thorough examination of all the issues related to the GLB community. If they suffer from shorter life expectancy and higher disease rates—and they do, as their own CHRC complaint states—no school or other government agency should be allowed to promote "acceptance" of this lifestyle… let alone "celebration" of behaviour that constitutes a serious health threat!

CHP Canada also wants to point out that there are those who have been forgotten: the many who want to leave, and have left, that dangerous lifestyle. Rather than discrediting or demonizing their experiences, wishes, and dreams, there should be professional assistance and resources available for them and their families—at public expense—in every community.

Radical 'gay' activists who clamour for the banning of reparative therapy do their own community a grave disservice. The CHP believes the choice to leave homosexuality should be available to whomever wants it, truly satisfying Canada's dream of civil liberty.