QUEBEC CITY, April 9, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Quebec Liberal Party overwhelmingly defeated the Parti Quebecois in Monday's provincial election, taking 70 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly.
The Parti Quebecois won seats in 30 ridings, the Coalition Avenir Quebec took 22 seats and Quebec Solidaire won three. PQ leader and Premier Pauline Marois lost her own seat and has said she will resign the leadership.
Pro-life and pro-family leaders are now watching to see what the Liberals will do with the controversial provincial legislation to legalize euthanasia through the back door that died when the election was called.
The Quebec Liberal Party is strongly pro-abortion and initiated the provincial debate that led to the euthanasia bill. The party campaigned against another controversial piece of PQ legislation, the Charter of Values, which would have barred “conspicuous” religious symbols on government employees.
Georges Buscemi, president of Campagne Quebec -Vie, said the Liberals are preferable to the Parti Quebecois.
“It is the best realistic outcome we could have hoped for. However, the bottom line is that the Liberal party is only about 15% less evil than the PQ,” he told LifeSiteNews.
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“What I see with the Liberals is a certain openness to faith, life and family that isn't there with the ideologically-driven left parties such as the Parti Quebecois and Quebec Solidaire. The Liberals are driven by good old fashioned, naked thirst for power, whereas the PQ actually has ideals, though tragically misdirected and inimical to faith, life and family,” he said.
Buscemi said that while the Liberals as a party are “nowhere near as zealous for euthanasia as is the PQ,” he warned that some of the elected Liberals are as adamant for euthanasia as was the former government.
“Dr. Gaetan Barrette, elected in La Pinière as a possible future health minister, is ardently pro-euthanasia,” Buscemi said.
He also pointed out that “the Liberal party is pro-abortion, pro-‘gay marriage’ and anti-religion, as demonstrated by their support of the mandatory normative pluralist Ethics and Religious Culture Course given in all public schools.”
On euthanasia, Buscemi noted Liberal leader and Premier-elect Philippe Couillard has said he intends to bring the euthanasia bill back to the stage it had reached before the election, which would mean it would face a final vote imminently.
However, said the pro-life leader, that requires the consent of the entire National Assembly, so all that is needed to force the bill back to the beginning is “one dissident MNA to vote against it.”
“Then, in the next phase,” Buscemi told LifeSiteNews, “we would need to isolate Dr. Barrette and encourage the Liberal party to re-submit a ‘dying with dignity’ bill with only the palliative care component.”
“This bill could pass and the euthanasia part could be indefinitely shelved. This is my hope for this parliament,” Buscemi said.