Ontario election on October 10, 2007.

Toronto -- society stifled by political correctness, steeped in hedonism (see notes on pornography and prostitution, pages 24-25), led by parties and leaders unworthy of support (see Tory, McGuinty), must now be confronted with the truth: Canada is a dying country, rotting away.

Ontarians must re-assert a vision of sanity.

They can do so only through one party, the Family Coalition Party (FCP).

The party was founded 20 years ago to defend sanity in the face of a crumbling culture. Its candidates are asked to run for office, not necessarily to win but first to (re) introduce the truly important life-giving issues into the campaign.

To be a candidate, contact [e-mail] or call 1-888-613-2645.

I) THE FAMILY COALITION PARTY 2007 ELECTION PLATFORM AS SEEN BY CATHOLIC INSIGHT

1) OPPOSE: ABORTION

* Close freestanding abortion "clinics;" No to funding

* No funding

* Protect conscience rights of medical personnel

* Women's right to counsel

2) SUPPORT: TRADITIONAL FAMILIES

* Enact family-friendly taxation policies

* Recognize in legislation only the union of one man and one woman

* Reinstate use of the terms "husband" and "wife"

3) PROTECT: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

* Reform the Ontario Human Rights Commission 

* Allow legitimate criticism of the homosexual lifestyle

4) PROTECT: FREEDOM OF RELIGION

* Re-affirm the independence of Catholic schools

* Provide tax credits for Jewish / Evangelical schools (no strings)

5) OPPOSE: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HOMOSEXUALITY

* Halt funding of "gay pride" events and homosexual groups

* Enforce health laws on bathhouses

6) OPPOSE: LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION

* Reject enslavement of women

Vote for sanity. Vote FCP.

Voters: Dump candidates not prepared to publicly defend the pro-life, pro-family program, including if necessary FCP candidates who forget why they are candidates. The few pro-life and pro-family PC and Lib candidates also deserve your support and will be listed in September.

Say NO to the NDP; and NO to the Greens.

Candidates who are pro-abortion disqualify themselves from public office.

II) WHY ONTARIANS SHOULD NOT TO VOTE FOR JOHN TORY 

Ontario residents wondering where to park their votes in me provincial election this coming October 10 have good reasons not to support John Tory and his Progressive Conservative party. A "red Tory" with NDP-liberal views on a number of issues, he has openly courted favour with homosexuals since the beginning of his leadership reign in 2004 and even before it.

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William Thorsell, the Globe's former editor-in-chief who turned it into Canada's pink newspaper, already in 2003 called for Stephen Harper to step down as candidate for leader of the new federal Conservatives and allow Tory to be crowned leader (Globe and Mail, Dec. 15, 2003). Later, during the contest for Ontario leader of the Progressive Conservative party, Tory was the only one of the three candidates to support same-sex "marriage" (LifeSiteNews, August 31, 2004).

Needless to say, homosexualists were jubilant. The homosexual lobby group Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) thanked the PC party profusely for choosing Tory.

On February 24, 2005, John Tory (before he even had a seat) colluded with the NDP and Dalton McGuinty's Liberals to ram through the Ontario Legislature Bill 171 with only a voice vote, to avoid identifying the MPPs who voted in favour. The bill enshrined same-sex "marriage" by changing 73 provincial statutes to bring about the abolition of terms such as "wives" and "husbands." Party leaders, including Tory, "browbeat" their MPPs to go along with the scheme (LifeSiteNews.com, Feb. 24; March 4, 2005). All this happened even before Prime Minister Paul Martin got his hair-brained same-sex "marriage" bill through Parliament in Ottawa.

In the summer of 2005, Tory attended the 25th annual Gay Pride Awards ceremony in Toronto. At another homosexual event, a photo shows him being kissed by a transvestite, and after the imposition of the federal same-sex "marriage," bill (June 2005) he counseled Harper not to reopen the issue because "it is a matter of human rights" (LifeSiteNews, June 23, 2005; Jan. 12, 2006). During a keynote address to the Ontario PC Policy Conference in Niagara Falls, ON in early 2006, Tory said he wanted to make sure "every Ontarian who believes in a better province feels welcome in our party. Whether they are ... gay or straight" (OntarioPC.com, Feb. 18, 2006).

Nothing seems too extreme for Tory. In May 2007, he participated in the 17th annual "Inside Out Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival" where he was named an honorary "distinguished patron" of the Queer Youth Video Project. The festival promoted one work as "the cream of the crop of smoking-hot hardcore porn for dykes and genderqueers of all stripes." Tory said he was "delighted" and commended the filmmakers as "a great group of men and women, including the young people who are involved." (Toronto Star, May 26; LifeSiteNews, May 29, 2007).

In the lead-up to the October 10 election, Tory has been quietly recruiting "progressive" candidates (Carol Goar, Toronto Star, May 21, 2007). His proposal to fully fund "faith-based schools," seemingly an olive branch to people of faith, comes with strict criteria and government accountability requirements," including "the complete requirements of Ontario's common curriculum."

In other words, Tory aspires to full government control with a curriculum ordering the teaching of sex education, including instruction on "sexual orientation" and Darwinian evolution. This is very different from the tax-credit system implemented by the former PC government, which came with no strings attached (LifeSiteNews.com, June 12, 2007).

III) PREMIER McGUINTY REJECTS POPE BENEDICT'S TEACHING

Toronto--Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has often made mention of his Catholic identity. He comes from a prominent Catholic family of ten children. That Catholic identity has been called into question, however, by his public support of abortion and same-sex "marriage." In Mid-May, he reacted unfavourably to Pope Benedict XVI's May 9 statement regarding the self-excommunication of pro-abortion "Catholic" politicians. (See News in Brief under Vatican, pp. 33-36).

Toronto Sun reporter Christina Blizzard had asked him about the Pope's statement that the "killing of an innocent child is incompatible with receiving communion." This is how McGuinty replied: "I have a different constituency than does the Pope. I am responsible for representing all kinds of people from all kinds of different backgrounds, different faiths, different cultures, different traditions. The Pope, his purview is the church. My purview is Ontario and there is one particular aspect of myself that is in common with the Pope--I happen to be Catholic, but I have other responsibilities as well."

Blizzard's own reaction was shock and total incomprehension. She asked: "What place does a medieval organization like the Vatican have in modern multicultural society?" ("Premier pops off on Pope," May 16, 2007). Catholic Insight magazine issued a press release the same day.

Bishop Wingle

Bishop James Wingle, President of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops, was quick to seize the occasion as an opportunity to show that the Church is a teacher, not a political body with constituencies. He explained, "This is not a matter of narrow personal view, nor is it a private or sectarian proposition. It is a statement about justice ... "All persons in public life, especially civic leaders, have a duty to defend the dignity of human life." (Interview with LifeSiteNews, May 17).

The Canadian Organization for Life and Family (COLF) also responded, calling McGuinty's comments a "double misunderstanding." The light of the Gospel cannot be restricted to one area only; and separation of Church and state does not mean that religious views must be excluded from public life (Ibid; see website).

See Rory Leishman for further comments, page 11.