Aileen Carroll increases funds to U.N. population program.

Ottawa -- On November 29, 2004, just before President Bush's visit, Canada announced that it is increasing its contribution to a United Nations program boycotted by the Bush administration (Toronto Star, Nov. 30). Aileen Carroll, the Minister of CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency, announced an almost 40 per cent increase in our contribution to the U. N. Population Fund from $13.1 million annually to $67.4 million over four years. The U.S. has refused to support the fund for the last three years because it encourages forced abortions and sterilizations in China. About $9 million of Canada's contribution will be directed to a fund for birth control supplies such as condoms.

Catholic supporters of Aileen Carroll, the Catholic Liberal MP for Barrie-Simcoe-Bradford, made protestations during the June 2004 federal election when she was listed as a pro-abortion Catholic M.P despite the fact that she claims to be "pro-choice." In the fall of 2003, she absented herself from the vote for the defence of marriage; later she voted in favour of C-250 (the hate legislation) and C-13 (permitting embryonic stem-cell research). Described as a feminist by the Toronto Star, she proudly pushes the U.N.'s "reproductive health programs," a pseudonym for birth control, abortion, sexual orientation, condoms, etc. She belongs to St. Mary's Parish in Barrie, Ontario.

Needless to say, her views fit those of our Catholic Prime Minister, who is "pro-choice" and is about to introduce legislation for homogamy (man-marriage) early in 2005.