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(LifeSiteNews) – While Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre is certainly superior to Canada’s current Prime Minister (Dictator) Justin Trudeau, his voting record and statements regarding the dignity of human life and the traditional family show a lack of concern with core conservative values that Canadians cannot afford to overlook.
Truth be told, I wish Poilievre was a true conservative. He is economically literate, young, politically savvy, and far from a slouch intellectually. He frequently uploads short and impactful videos to YouTube in which he interviews regular Canadians, hears their complaints, and exposes the reality of the economic mess Trudeau and his globalist puppet-masters have thrust upon the unsuspecting and overly polite citizenry.
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But the fact of the matter is, outside of the current political framework in which everyone to the political right of Stalin is considered conservative, Poilievre is a liberal.
Out of Christian charity, I will say that I cannot know whether his liberal voting tendencies align with his true moral outlook, or are simply a political strategy to appeal to a wider-range of Canadians, but the fact remains that it is quite hard to consider a pro-LGBT and pro-abortion politician a “conservative” simply because he is not a communist like his political adversaries.
‘I see that gay marriage is a success’
In January 2020, Poilievre gave an interview to the French-language La Presse, in which he lamented the fact that he voted against gay marriage “15 years ago.”
“I support gay marriage. Period. I voted against it 15 years ago. But I’ve learned a lot, as have millions and millions of people across Canada and around the world. I see that gay marriage is a success. The institution of marriage must be open to all citizens, regardless of their sexual orientation,” he told La Presse.
Now, one would normally think that an integral part of being conservative would involve the desire to conserve something as integral to the social fabric as the definition of marriage, especially considering how quickly the LGBT narrative went from “just allow us to get married” to “if you don’t call your daughter your ‘son’ you will go to jail.”
Nevertheless, Poilievre followed up his pro-LGBT change of heart to a change in action, and in 2021 voted in favor of the Trudeau government’s pro-LGBT “conversion therapy ban,” which used a broad and ambiguous definition of “conversion therapy” that included any attempt to “repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour or non-cisgender gender expression.”
Critics warned that under this broad-scoped legislation it could be considered a criminal offence for a parent to tell their own son not to wear a dress if the son desired to do so, as that would be attempting to “repress” his “non-cisgender gender expression.”
While that particular bill was not made law due to the fact that Trudeau called a snap election killing all open bills in parliament, an even more radical version of it, called Bill C-4, was passed unanimously by the House of Commons, providing a near-fatal blow to parental rights and religious liberty in Canada.
Poilievre vows ‘never’ to introduce pro-life legislation
In the same interview with La Presse, Poilievre stated that his government would “never” introduce legislation seeking to restrict abortion, and if a private member’s bill was introduced to that effect, he would ensure its failure.
In similar fashion to his newfound fondness of homosexual “marriage,” shortly after clarifying his pro-abortion views Poilievre voted against a bill seeking to ban sex-selective abortion in Canada.
A far-cry from an outright ban on the abhorrent practice of abortion, or even the imposition of term limits, as Canada currently allows abortion on demand until the moment of birth, the bill was simply attempting to make it illegal for a child to be murdered in the womb because of his or her sex.
It is worth noting that the sex of a baby usually cannot be determined until week 11 or week 12 of pregnancy, at which point the child has a heartbeat, internal organs, increasingly functional limbs and even active salivary glands, meaning an abortion carried out at this stage often requires surgical instruments.
81 Conservative MPs voted in favor of the ban, while 38, including Poilievre, voted against the ban. To focus on just this one issue, not only is Poilievre not the most pro-life of the Conservative MPs, he is apparently not even in the top 80.
There is more to conservatism than low taxes
The point of this piece is not to say that Poilievre is not the best chance at defeating Trudeau (which is undoubtedly a necessity), but rather to illustrate that while Poilievre may be smart economically – he accurately and consistently calls out the recklessness of the Bank of Canada and the Trudeau government as the primary causal factor of inflation – the problems that exist within Canada long predate and heavily outweigh financial stupidity and COVID mandates.
Can a nation that allows the slaughter of the unborn really be all that surprised when our overlords remove our freedom to make medical decisions for ourselves? If we have a leader unwilling to ensure our most innocent have something as basic as the right to life, do we even deserve any of the other rights we hold dear?
When we consider what it means to be a conservative, what’s more important? Repealing the carbon tax or saving the nation’s children from death in the womb or anti-family indoctrination through the redefinition of marriage, gender, and love?
Of course, repealing the carbon tax is wise (even Liberal voters think that, they just won’t admit it), but if being a conservative has been reduced to a lackluster defense of freedom that takes place two years after government mandates ravage the country, and no-brainer arguments against delusional communists, then conservatism is nothing more than the useful idiot of outright malevolent liberalism.
With last night’s endorsement of Poilievre by former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, it is likely that he will win his bid for leadership of the CPC and may well become the next prime minister.
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Considering the fact that he did indeed stick his neck out for the Freedom Convoy, and the fact that true conservatives like MP Leslyn Lewis still rally strong support in Canada, there may yet remain hope that he change course and allow for the social conservative revival within the wayward party.
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