By John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, March 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The second reading vote on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act was a very educational moment for the voting public in Canada. With the record of the vote, the public has been given – with respect at least to those Members who turned up for the vote – a clearer view of just who are the pro-abortion extremist Liberal Party MPs in Parliament.
While the vote was not able to distinguish those who are pro-life from those who are not, it was able to identify those so radically in favour of abortion they could not even bring themselves to vote in support of legislation promoting a woman’s right to choose life for her child – on a bill that had nothing to do with abortion.
National polling released last October found that even among Canadians who support abortion at any stage in the pregnancy, a majority – 55% – are in favour of “legislation making it a separate crime to injure or kill a foetus during an attack on the mother” – which is the intent of bill C-484.
LifeSiteNews.com reported last week that the Bloc Quebecois voted unanimously against the bill, and a lone member of the NDP gave the bill support while the remainder of the Party opposed it. Moreover Prime Minister Steven Harper and all the Conservatives except for four of them supported the legislation. (see coverage: The Four Conservatives Who Voted Against the Unborn Victims of Crime Act https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08030608.html )
The Liberal vote on the bill however was a mixed bag. Twenty seven Liberals voted to support bill C-484 while 55 voted against it. Liberal Leader Stephane Dion was not present but at home with his wife hosting a party in honor of International Women’s Day. Attendees at the party were, according to Parliament Hill buzz, less than pleased with the result of the vote. And, according to that same buzz, Dion assured them that on final reading the Liberals would be out in force to try to vote down the bill.
Here is a rundown compiled by LifeSiteNews.com of the way the Liberal Members voted on C-484
Voting Against were:
Alghabra, Omar – Mississauga-Erindale, Ontario
Bagnell, Larry – Yukon
Bains, Navdeep – Mississauga-Brampton South Ontario
Barnes, Sue – London West Ontario
Beaumier, Colleen – Brampton West Ontario
Bélanger, Mauril – Ottawa-Vanier Ontario
Bell, Don – North Vancouver British Columbia
Bennett, Carolyn – St. Paul’s Ontario
Bevilacqua, Maurizio – Vaughan Ontario
Boshcoff, Ken – Thunder Bay-Rainy River Ontario
Brison, Scott – Kings-Hants Nova Scotia
Brown, Bonnie – Oakville Ontario
Cotler, Irwin – Mount Royal Québec
Cuzner, Rodger – Cape Breton-Canso Nova Scotia
D’Amours, Jean-Claude – Madawaska-Restigouche New Brunswick
Dhalla, Ruby – Brampton-Springdale Ontario
Dryden, Ken – York Centre Ontario
Easter, Wayne – Malpeque Prince Edward Island
Folco, Raymonde – Laval-Les Îles Québec
Fry, Hedy – Vancouver Centre British Columbia
Godfrey, John – Don Valley West Ontario
Goodale, Ralph – Wascana Saskatchewan
Holland, Mark – Ajax-Pickering Ontario
Ignatieff, Michael – Etobicoke-Lakeshore Ontario
Jennings, Marlene – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Lachine Québec
Kadis, Susan – Thornhill Ontario
Keeper, Tina – Churchill Manitoba
LeBlanc, Dominic – Beauséjour New Brunswick
Marleau, Diane – Sudbury Ontario
-Martin, Keith – Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca British Columbia
Matthews, Bill – Random-Burin-St. George’s Newfoundland and Labrador
McCallum, John – Markham-Unionville Ontario
McGuinty, David – Ottawa South Ontario
Minna, Maria – Beaches-East York Ontario
Murphy, Brian – Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe New Brunswick
Neville, Anita – Winnipeg South Centre Manitoba
Patry, Bernard – Pierrefonds-Dollard Québec
Pearson, Glen – London North Centre Ontario
Proulx, Marcel – Hull-Aylmer Québec
Ratansi, Yasmin – Don Valley East Ontario
Redman, Karen – Kitchener Centre Ontario
Regan, Geoff – Halifax West Nova Scotia
Rodriguez, Pablo – Honoré-Mercier Québec
Rota, Anthony – Nipissing-Timiskaming Ontario
Russell, Todd – Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador
Savage, Michael – Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Nova Scotia
Scott, Andy – Fredericton New Brunswick
Sgro, Judy – York West Ontario
Silva, Mario – Davenport Ontario
Simms, Scott – Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor Newfoundland and Labrador
St. Denis, Brent – Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing Ontario
Telegdi, Andrew – Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario
Temelkovski, Lui – Oak Ridges-Markham Ontario
Turner, Garth – Halton Ontario
Wilfert, Bryon – Richmond Hill Ontario
Voting in support of Bill C-484 were:
Bonin, Raymond – Nickel Belt Ontario
Cannis, John – Scarborough Centre Ontario
Chan, Raymond – Richmond British Columbia
Cullen, Roy – Etobicoke North Ontario
Dhaliwal, Sukh – Newton-North Delta British Columbia
Guarnieri, Albina – Mississauga East-Cooksville Ontario
Hubbard, Charles – Miramichi New Brunswick
Karygiannis, Jim – Scarborough-Agincourt Ontario
Lee, Derek – Scarborough-Rouge River Ontario
MacAulay, Lawrence – Cardigan Prince Edward Island
Malhi, Gurbax – Bramalea-Gore-Malton Ontario
Maloney, John – Welland Ontario
McGuire, Joe – Egmont Prince Edward Island
McKay, John – Scarborough-Guildwood Ontario
McTeague, Dan – Pickering-Scarborough East Ontario
Murphy, Shawn – Charlottetown Prince Edward Island
Pacetti, Massimo – Saint-Léonard-Saint-Michel Québec
Scarpaleggia, Francis – Lac-Saint-Louis Québec
Simard, Raymond – Saint Boniface Manitoba
St. Amand, Lloyd – Brant Ontario
Steckle, Paul – Huron-Bruce Ontario
Szabo, Paul – Mississauga South Ontario
Thibault, Robert – West Nova Nova Scotia
Tonks, Alan – York South-Weston Ontario
Valley, Roger – Kenora Ontario
Wappel, Tom – Scarborough Southwest Ontario
Wrzesnewskyj, Borys – Etobicoke Centre Ontario