This month's poll on abortion by Angus Reid shows clearly that Canadians are not content with the status quo of unrestricted access to abortion.

Among the many statistics derived from the poll are these:

• Four out of five Canadians don't know a woman can request an abortion at any stage of her pregnancy, for any reason-or for no reason at all.
• One third of Canadians think the abortion debate has never been settled, and want it discussed in Parliament.
• Four out of ten Canadians say abortion should only be funded by taxpayers in emergency situations.
• 42% of Canadians want legal abortions only if certain circumstances are met.

While these numbers are enough to make opponents of abortion-on-demand leap with joy, (such data will push Canadian politicians to face the on-going abortion debate,) there is another, better reason for cheering: these poll results show that more and more Canadians are becoming informed of what abortion really involves-the willful destruction of innocent human beings.

But we must also recognize a more fundamental issue at the heart of this poll result:

Do we truly believe that the way to decide what's right and wrong is by polls? Can moral questions be resolved by popular opinion?

There was a time when, in most Western democracies, the majority opposed women voting. There was also a time when the majority believed it was OK for non-whites to be owned as property, and used as slaves.

Public opinion is not a reliable guide for resolving moral issues. In fact, most of recent polls and surveys on the other issue pro-lifers are concerned with, euthanasia, all point to legalization. If we base our decision on the opinion of the majority, legal protection for the sanctity of life will be destroyed-again.

No, there's only one way of determining policy and implementing laws: we need a transcendent standard of right and wrong! And there is only one transcendent, immutable standard: God's Word. It's very clear: innocent life must be protected!

Why do the leaders of the Conservative Party suppress attempts by Canada's citizens (as well as some of their own MPs) to re-engage the debate and provide some protection for our most vulnerable citizens? Why was Rod Bruinooge, MP for Winnipeg South, opposed by his own Prime Minister when he brought forward a private member's bill to criminalize coercing a woman into having an abortion?

It's because leaders of all the parties now in the House of Commons are cowards, bowing to media panjandrums who beat the drum for the supposed "right" to kill inconvenient babies.

But the tide is turning as more and more Canadians learn the truth about abortion, thanks to gentle media campaigns like Signal Hill, and more aggressive campaigns like the Genocide Awareness Project.

CHP Canada is the only federal party in Canada that is pro-life. As Canadians turn more and more to transcendent, immutable standards of right and wrong for guidance, either the old-line parties will have to change their commitment to the "silent holocaust" of abortion, or the voters will have only one place to go: CHP Canada.