QUEBEC, February 26, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 1989 an organization dedicated to pro-life work in Quebec was launched under the auspices of Campaign Life Coalition to bring the pro-life, pro-family message to Quebecers.
Twenty-five years later, Campagne Québec-Vie (CQV) has grown to become a formidable voice fighting against the violence of abortion and promoting all aspects of the culture of life.
“I think the Morgentaler decision in 1988 and then the Chantal Daigle affair, both landmark Supreme Court decisions involving Quebec protagonists, really drove home the need for a Quebec-based pro-life group,” said Campagne Québec-Vie President Georges Buscemi to LifeSiteNews.
“Add to that the fact that Trudeau was a Quebecer and also one of the chief architects of the culture of death in Canada, we had and still have reason to believe that Quebec's ignominious fall from grace from a model of Christendom to an ideological incubator for every strain of progressivism is one of the major contributors towards moral decay in Canada,” Buscemi said.
In the late 1980s Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), asked Mr. Gilles Grondin of Montreal to consider establishing Campagne Québec-Vie as the Quebec branch of CLC.
Mr. Grondin had retired from a 30-year career with the Canadian Diplomatic Corps and had begun working in the Ottawa office of Campaign Life Coalition bringing the pro-life message to French-speaking MPs. He established Campagne Québec-Vie in September 1989.
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“The work that Gilles did in establishing Campagne Québec-Vie was full of difficulties, he had a very hard time of it,” Hughes told LifeSiteNews. “But he was very disciplined and he was faith-filled and went to Mass every day, and I think it was because of his great faith that we were able to successfully get it off the ground.”
One of Mr. Grondin's first accomplishments was to alert pro-life advocates of the existence of a newly declassified document, NSSM 200, which was a U.S. executive-level government blueprint for world de-population and western domination.
Hughes said that the major achievement of Campagne Québec-Vie in its first 25 years has been to “keep the flame of pro-life work alive” in the province.
Georges Buscemi said that accomplishments in just the last five years by Campagne Québec-Vie have included a vastly improved internet presence, establishing a quasi-permanent presence outside the Morgentaler facility in Montreal, founding a 1-800 help line for pregnant women, increasing Quebec participation in the National March for Life in Ottawa by organizing buses out of Quebec City and Montreal, consolidating a network of pro-life and pro-family individuals and families through events like La March Chrétienne, and starting a Montreal 40 Days for Life campaign.
“But things are still very much embryonic and difficult in this province in demographic and moral decline,” Buscemi told LifeSiteNews. “Ultimately it will take a spiritual resuscitation of the Catholic Church in Quebec to crush the serpent's head.”
An interview of Campagne Québec-Vie founder Gilles Grondin by Marcus Grodi of EWTN's “Journey Home” program is available here.
Information about Campagne Québec-Vie is available on their website here.