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OTTAWA, Jan 31, (LifeSiteNews) – LifeSite News staff returned home late yesterday after monitoring the UA/Reform Convention which concluded Sunday. Although a number of people believed that the UA and Preston Manning’s leadership were going to unravel, the vast majority of Reformers attending their annual convention provided clear support for the initiative and reconfirmed their support of Manning by a 75% margin.

Social conservatives at the conventions fought to preserve the conservative social values in the Canadian Alliance’s policies that were contained in Reform policies. They were for the most part successful The UA assembly quickly passed the new party’s policies and amendments that strongly support the family. These are far beyond anything contained in the other mainstream parties’ official positions. For example, the party’s official position on marriage is that it is “the union of a man and a woman.” The party is also bound to defend the position that “[w]e would not allow international law to supercede Canadian law”, a policy that would cause cause grief to UN social engineers should the Alliance form the next   government. The delegates voted to remove a clause, which would have promoted the “decriminalizing [of] possession and use of marijuana by adults.”