Christian Heritage Party of Canada Party principles are based on these Biblical ethics and are unalterable:

BELIEFS

1. We believe there is one Creator God, eternally existent in three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  We believe in the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
2. We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired, inerrant written Word of God and the final authority above all man's laws and government.
3. We believe civil government to be under the authority of God.
4. We believe the purpose of civil government is to ensure freedom and justice for a nation's citizens by upholding law and order in accordance with Biblical principles.
5. We believe that decision-making processes by civil government must not in any way contravene these Biblical ethics.

On these five statements of belief, the following nine principles are based:

PRINCIPLES 

1. That the family, consisting of those individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption, is the foundational social unit of the nation, and that the family has primary responsibility for the welfare, education, and property of its members.  Civil government must respect the sanctity of the family and its unique sphere of authority, and it must preserve and promote optimum conditions in which the integrity of the family unit can be maintained.
2. That God is the Author of life, and that human life originates at conception.  Abortion and euthanasia must be opposed under all circumstances as the shedding of innocent blood.
3. That God has established laws of sexual morality for the well-being of society, prohibiting pornography, prostitution, adultery, incest, homosexuality and other sexual aberrations which debase man, as well as defile and pollute our nation.
4. That parents, not civil government, have the primary responsibility before God for child-rearing and the education of their children, and that parents must therefore have the freedom to educate their children according to the dictates of their conscience.
5. That it is everyone's duty to submit to the God-ordained governing authorities. The primary responsibility of civil government is to protect the lives of a nation's citizens and to ensure that those who violate law and order receive just punishment.  Crime should never carry with it a reward, and therefore the Biblical principle of restitution and compensation to victims of crime should be enforced.
6. That the Church is a God-ordained fellowship charged to proclaim God's truth and to set an example of godly living before the world, both outwardly and inwardly.  It has no authority to use physical coercion, but only to challenge man's conscience to do what is right.  Civil government (or the state) is a God-ordained institution with authority to deal only with the outward deeds of the people.  Both Church and State are unique in their responsibilities before God; neither may seek to usurp the other's role, but neither can be free of the influence of the other.
7. That civil government exists to serve the people, not people the civil government, and that people are therefore obliged to sustain civil government through just taxation.
8. That civil government has authority to build up and maintain an adequate military preparedness to protect a nation's unique national identity and sovereignty.
9. That Biblical principles concerning economics should be consistently upheld and respected by civil government, including honest weights and measures and avoidance of currency debasement. We further uphold the principle of responsible free enterprise, meaning maximum freedom to develop one's talents matched with responsibility before God in all dealings with our fellow man.

Both the Beliefs and Principles are unalterable in the Constitution of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada.

An *Elucidation of the CHP’s Five Founding Unalterable Principles

*Definition of ‘Elucidation’: making clear, explanation

Preamble to the Elucidation:

This Elucidation was developed to ensure that both Roman Catholics and Protestants will be able to wholeheartedly endorse our party principles and feel welcome to work at all levels within the party.

The following Elucidation is presented to our members and to those considering membership in the CHP as a way of explaining the intent of the founders of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada (both Protestant and Roman Catholic) regarding our five founding unalterable principles. This Elucidation is the result of the combined diligence of Roman Catholics (including that of a Catholic Canon lawyer) as well as ordained Protestant theologians. This Elucidation was presented to and accepted unanimously by the CHP National Board on 16 Feb 2012. Additionally this Elucidation has the endorsement and approval of Mr. Gerhard Herwig, a Roman Catholic founding father, and the endorsement and approval of Mr Ed Vanwoudenberg a Protestant founding father, both of whom were members on the first national executive.

Party Principles – Explained (ELUCIDATION)

WHEREAS: the Christian Heritage Party of Canada [hereafter referred to as the Party] was founded under Article A section 2 of its Constitution upon commonly agreed principles with the intent of establishing a political party in this Dominion of Canada purposed with the endeavour of reinstating a heretofore manifest Christian worldview within our Federal Government: AND

WHEREAS: both Roman Catholic and Protestant representatives approved of the wording of the unalterable principles: AND

WHEREAS: no implication, stated or assumed in the documents of the Party’s promulgation concerning any misunderstanding of ecclesiastical polity was intended: [at the time of establishment, is presently intended, or ever in the future shall be intended] such as would prevent or inhibit lawful membership in the Party by Roman Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox or Anglican Christians: AND

WHEREAS: a need for clarification of this intention has arisen: it is hereby reiterated and explained that THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE, established in the Party’s founding principles, Article A section 2, was, is and shall remain, set in the clear understanding of those differences in ecclesiastical authority between Roman Catholics and Protestants that predate the Party’s foundation: AND WHEREAS: This present clarification is by nature an appellant to the Party’s founding intention rather than witness to any defect or lacking in founding principle; the nature of this present document shall not be entitled an ERRATUM, for it is not any error within the Party’s founding principles that is hereby meant to be corrected; nor shall this document be entitled an AMENDMENT, for it is not any change to the Party’s founding principles that is hereby sought to be effected; BUT RATHER it shall be entitled an ELUCIDATION, for it seeks to remediate by way of clarification:

IT IS ACCORDINGLY DECLARED: that the Christian Heritage Party of Canada acknowledges and affirms the understanding and acceptance of authority in the Roman Catholic Church such that the Magisterium which is provided through Apostolic Succession and communion with the Successor of Peter manifests divine authority; and therefore represents a difference between Protestants and Roman Catholics fully understood at the time of the Party’s foundation, yet without prejudice [injury] to the Party’s promulgated establishment for the cause of a shared singular political goal, under the common umbrella of the Party, which is not a Church, but rather a vehicle through which Christians of different background may find that integrity of principle and practise, that allows them to participate and be engaged politically in the public square as citizens of the Dominion of Canada.