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Interview: "The Proposed Coalition Government is Very Very Scary" Says Canadian Pro-Life Leader

By John-Henry Westen and Steve Jalsevac

TORONTO, December 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pending massive political shakeup in Canada next Monday, when the three opposition parties - the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc - will attempt to bring down the just recently re-elected Conservative minority Government and form a coalition government is an alarming proposal, according to Jim Hughes, the National President of Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada.
 
"In terms of life and family, the coalition of the three stooges, as it is being referred to, is a very, very scary thing," said Hughes in a LifeSiteNews.com interview, referring to the coalition of Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, NDP Leader Jack Layton, and Quebec separatist Bloc Party Leader Gilles Duceppe. 

"Even though the Conservative Government has done very little to support life or family, I believe a coalition government would be much worse since it's expected that they would actively pursue an anti-life and anti-family agenda," he added. 

"We have to remember," said Hughes, "that despite the fact that his record on granting any fetal rights is abysmal, Harper did do the following:
 
- raised the age of consent for sex from 14 to 16
- resisted the push by the Liberals to legalize prostitution
- refused to nationalize the 'safe needles' program (which allowed heroin users to shoot up without fear of police prosecution)
- refused to instate a national day care program and rather gave the funds to the parents so they could decide what to do with it
- withdrew funding from the court challenges program (which was used mainly by homosexual activists to bring down pro-family laws)
 
"And finally, Harper does not support changing the law to allow for euthanasia."
 
Hughes concluded: "If the coalition government comes to pass, it will be one of the darkest days in the history of this country."

Hughes and other pro-life leaders fear the coalition could do untold damage to what little is left of protection for life and family and the religious and conscience freedoms in Canada. They could quickly fill the many vacant Senate vacancies with more of their ideological cronies who already dominate the Senate, restore funding for the social engineering Court Challenges Program, appoint more activist judges to the various courts, increase funding for all kinds of socially radical programs and agencies and much more. The road to legal euthanasia, supported by many elements in the three parties, would certainly be accelerated under the coalition.

The coalition parties have many other Canadians worried about their sudden action  to overthrow the government and establish themselves as an unelected, although legal government.

Concerns are especially heightened given the looming economic storm and the so far relative stability, compared to other nations, the Canadian economy has experienced under the Tories. All three members of the coalition, especially the socialist NDP and Bloc parties, have been strongly pushing for ramped up government spending, with inevitable large deficits, as their solution to the economic downturn.

Liberal leader Stephane Dion's agreement with the separtist Bloc Party is already said to be causing splits within the Liberal Party that may derail the coalition.

Bourque News reports that aspiring leader Michael Ignatieff is "having grave doubts about supporting the shocking Dion coalition bid, now labelled by many as the "Separatist Coalition", given the defining support it has from both the BQ's Gilles Duceppe and former PQ Premier Jacques Parizeau." Bourque also reports that as many as 15 oppositon members are "breaking ranks" and that some of them may sit as independents. 

The radical coalition action is being seen by many Canadians as unethical opportunism based primarily on the parties' outrage over the Conservatives' unexpected announcement that they would kill the entire Liberal government instituted taxpayer subsidy for political parties. The change was proposed last Thursday in a package of government measures to control spending in response to the economic crisis. 

Some commentators have called the Tories to task for springing their proposed measures without consultation or previous warming, seemingly with intent to goad and cripple the opposition and certain to enrage them. The Globe and Mail's Geoffrey Simpson and others state Harper has "done a Joe Clark", referring to the former Conservative Prime Minister's huge error in arrogantly behaving, also as a minority government leader, as though he had a majority and consequently suffering quick defeat at the hands of the opposition.

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