OTTAWA, Ontario, April 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justin Trudeau, 41, was overwhelmingly elected to lead Canada’s Liberal party on Sunday, snatching 80 percent of the vote on the first ballot.
Canadian life and family leaders are warning that Trudeau’s hard-line stances favoring abortion-on-demand and same-sex “marriage” are a threat to the pro-life and pro-family causes.
“He’s no friend of the unborn,” said Jim Hughes, President of Campaign Life Coalition, to LifeSiteNews.com. “He’s not pro-life. In fact, he’s a raving pro-abortionist.”
Trudeau is Catholic, but has been unapologetic about his anti-life and anti-family positions. “As a politician I have political positions on gay marriage and on abortion that don’t at all resemble those of the Catholic Church,” he said in a 2009 interview with CBC.
At a kick-off event for Pope John-Paul II’s 2002 World Youth Day in Toronto, Trudeau told a crowd of his struggles with Catholicism, urging youth present to reject “old men with old ideas. It's time to change our world,” he said, “and it starts tonight.”
Last year Trudeau claimed in a statement that lit up twitter and blogs across the country that he would rather Quebec separate from the federation then see Canada become a country that restricts abortion and supports traditional marriage.
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“I always say, if at a certain point, I believe that Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper – that we were going against abortion, and we were going against gay marriage, and we were going backwards in 10,000 different ways – maybe I would think about wanting to make Quebec a country,” he told a Radio-Canada host in February 2012.
After Mark Warawa’s pro-life Motion 408 was deemed non-votable in Parliament — in a move that critics denounced as undemocratic and as a breach of the privileges of MPs — Trudeau promised that as the country’s leader, he would give MPs freer rein from the party line, that is, unless the issue of abortion came up. Trudeau said that “MPs would be required to support Canadians’ fundamental rights.”
Trudeau’s policy on “democratic reform,” where party discipline is discussed, makes it clear that Liberal MPs would be required to vote with Cabinet on bills “that speak to the shared values embodied in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”
“For me, a woman's right to choose is a fundamental right,” clarified Truedeau.
“We know Justin Trudeau is absolutely vacuous intellectually with regard to the depths and understanding of the pro-life issue,” said Gwen Landolt, National Vice-President of REAL Women Canada, to LifeSiteNews, in response. “There is nothing in his head — he has no understanding, no grasp — of the pro-life issue at all.”
With his commitment to abortion, pro-life advocates see Trudeau advancing along the path laid out by his father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who forced the country to accept legalized abortion with the infamous 1969 Omnibus Bill.
Critics hold Pierre Trudeau largely responsible for crippling Canada's Christian moral culture through his promotion of secular political liberalism that sees God and religion as having nothing to do with public and political life. They also hold him responsible for spearheading a social revolt that increased abortions, divorces, weakened marriage, and which ultimately resulted in the country’s attack on real marriage through the legalization of homosexual “marriage.”
Recent opinion polls indicate that if an election were to be held now, Trudeau’s Liberals would be within range of taking government. But critics have pointed out that Trudeau’s third-place party, branded as the party for the new and younger generation of voters, is not all what it has been made out to be. An analysis of the more than 100,000 registered voters who gave Trudeau his landslide victory found that about 60 percent were 50 years of age and older. About 8 percent were under the age of 25. About half of the voters that anointed Trudeau were residents of Ontario.
“If he is supposed to be the great new light, he certainly hasn’t struck the match yet,” said Landolt.