"Moderates" vs "Extremists".

Mr. Stockwell Day is leader of the Alliance, and Mr. Jean Chretien is anxious to fight an ideological election with him. Lysiane Gagnon (Globe and Mail) and Rachel Giese (Toronto Star, formerly of the homosexual tabloid Extra), and others, say that Day represents the fanatic while Chretien and his Liberals stand for moderation. As I pointed out earlier, this Liberal moderation includes a woman's "right" to kill preborn babies. Under the title of moderation then, two and a half million existing Canadian babies had their lives snuffed out since 1969.

I should stop here and have nothing further to say because of the enormity of the crime. However, for the sake of fuller information let us look at some "moderate" Liberal leaders other than Chretien. If Mr. Chretien is pushed onto his own sword and retires as Liberal leader, then we are facing-- according to the pundits--either Allan Rock, or Paul Martin, or Brian Tobin, or Frank McKenna, as the new Liberal leader.

Right away we note that all four are Catholics, and that all four share Mr. Chretien's view that the party must support a "woman's choice". In addition each one has other defining principles.

Rock

Mr. Allan Rock (MP for Toronto Etobicoke-Centre), as Minister of Justice (1993-98), believed that the existing legal prohibition of euthanasia should be "re-thought". On abortion, he is straightforwardly in "favour of choice". He is a lapsed Catholic, divorced and re-married outside the Church. Prolifers "bore him," he has said. He is responsible for putting the undefined term "sexual orientation" into Canada's Human Rights Act, and into the hate law Act (Bill-C33) in May 1996. He had the temerity to claim that his legislation was in accord with the Catholic faith. No free votes, of course. He also rammed through useless gun registration. Morality, Mr. Rock has said, should have nothing to do with politics. Just now, as Health minister, he is facilitating the use of the RU-486 drug.

Martin

Mr. Paul Martin, Minister of Finance, received the Christian Culture Award from Assumption College in Windsor and an honourary doctorate from St. Michael's College in Toronto in 1998. The reason given for the doctorate was that he is working for the "common good" on "behalf of the weak and the poor" (Catholic Register, December 7, 1999).

As noted already, with respect to the weakest of all, pre-born babies, he is at one with his party. He has voted for the measures listed under Mr. Allan Rock, for which the "gay" lobby has given him a solid B in its report card. His taxation policy is detrimental to families. Stay-at-home mothers are punished because the family has to pay $3,800 more in taxes (with earnings of $60,000 with two children) than if she got a job and earned a salary.

McKenna

Frank McKenna introduced "efficiency" into New Brunswick's government where he was premier for ten years (until Oct. 1997). For example, he abolished the boards of 33 rural hospitals, placing them under direct government control in May 1992. This included the expropriation without compensation of seven Catholic hospitals, ending 150 years of Catholic medical care. The bill was rammed through the Legislature in one week's time. In 1994 he gutted St. Joseph Hospital in St. John by forcing it to abandon family medicine.

In 1993 McKenna was the first provincial premier to enact benefits for "gays" in provincial employ. In 1995--again for efficiency's sake--he reduced school districts from 43 to 18, and then abolished them altogether, placing education under exclusive government control with no local input tolerated.

Tobin

Mr. Brian Tobin, Premier of Newfoundland, may well be the leading Liberal contender. He resembles Jean Chretien in autocratic behaviour.

As in the case of Frank McKenna, Tobin went from burying Catholic teaching against abortion into attacking the institutional Church, except he did it more flagrantly. In 1998, by means of a manipulated referendum, he dissolved and expropriated the denominational (mostly Catholic) school system. To do this he had the federal Constitutional guarantee for such schools removed with the help of his friend Jean Chretien. Today, his government, like a bloodhound following the trail, is pursuing the expropriation of two Christian Brother sponsored high schools in Vancouver in order to pay lawyers' fees in the Mount Cashel case. The sale of the Brothers' private property apparently is not enough.

These, then, are the Liberal "moderates" who oppose the presumably wicked Mr. Day. His crime seems to be that not only is he a Christian, but that he intends to be one in public life. Moderates, on the other hand, believe that religion and morality are private affairs which, as Mr. Trudeau so eloquently said in 1997, "should have nothing to do with politics".

For the love of me, I don't see why Catholics continue to vote for these people.