Ontario needs the Family Coalition Party.

When there is hope, there is a future. For some time, Catholic Insight has been pursuing the theme of building a new culture.

Previous editorials have spoken of the need to oppose and change the current culture ("Spiritual energy and Christian roots," December 2006), and also how Christians in Canada need to develop their own plans instead of passively standing by and waiting for existing parties and power brokers to somehow adopt our views ("Christians must create their own election strategy," May 2007). Another editorial spoke of the need to start doing, instead of just talking ("Time for public testimony," March 2007). The June editorial, "The task before us," called for a much more robust confrontation with the hedonists in matters of justice, the family, and the freedom of speech and religion increasingly threatened by them. Remember, these people believe that God should have nothing to do with society's values ("Culture: with or without God," April 2007 editorial).

The time is urgent. Canada, like European countries, is spiralling down to a demographic and moral collapse.

Following these convictions, and examining the political situation in Ontario for the upcoming October 10 election, Catholic Insight sees no choice but to abandon the policy of supporting worthy candidates in all parties. Instead, we will support only the candidates of the small, centrist, pro-people Family Coalition Party. The situation is so bad that it would be inexcusable for us to do otherwise.

As readers know, and as we have explained before, the NDP and the Greens are constitutionally committed to a pro-death, anti-human philosophy. Therefore, they are disqualified from holding office (see C.I., June p. 31, Feb. p. 19 for the NDP; Feb. p. 28 for the Greens).

The leaders of the Ontario Liberal and the Progressive Conservative parties have now also made it impossible for family-minded Canadians to vote for them. See pages 13 and 14 in this issue for details.

Since 1967, the federal Liberal Party, from Pierre Trudeau (1968-1984) to Paul Martin (2004-2006), mocked human Reason, Tradition and Religion with anti-family policies sanctioning contraception, divorce, pornography and same-sex 'marriage,' matched only by their pro-death abortion and embryonic stem-cell legislation. More recently, its provincial counterpart, ruling in Ontario again under a renegade Catholic, has adopted the same stand.

The Ontario Conservatives, meanwhile, have been in opposition since 2003. They are still dominated by the so-called Red Tories, to the public acclaim of the Ontario media. These had enough influence to ensure that even after the making of a new federal Conservative Party, Conservatives in Ontario would retain the title "Progressive." Earlier, under the Harris et al regime (1995-2003), these progressives ensured a debilitating submissiveness to the "politically correct" answers of such developments as same-sex "marriage." In February 2005, Ontario's McGuinty Liberals changed some 70 Ontario statutes in three readings, lasting a total of less than three hours, to conform them to the Ontario Court of Appeal command of June 2003 that from then on, the age-old federal definition of marriage would be unconstitutional. The Ontario PC's co-operated by refusing to even call for a recorded vote.

Two years ago, the Ontario PC's elected as their leader the failed candidate for mayor of Toronto, John Tory, a former executive with Rogers Communications. He has proved to have neither shame nor common sense in pursuit of votes among homosexual activists. Ostensibly, he is trying to appeal to Jews and evangelicals by championing support for faith-based schools, but this is only to bring those schools under the complete control of the Ontario Ministry of Education, which means adopting its same sex and other propaganda courses.

There is one more thing. John Tory and his "progressive" backers want to force the federal Conservatives to change course, abandon their present conservatism, and substitute for it their own so-called "Big Tent" concept (which excludes real conservatives), in which political correctness will hold sway until Canada's dying society implodes.

Catholic Insight is calling on Ontarians of goodwill to rally behind the Family Coalition Party, at once a movement for change and a political party. It needs members, supporters, volunteers and, above all, candidates willing to bring the message of life into the election, not the politically correct program of a dying society.

"We cannot, may not surrender to evil; let us respond to evil with good" (Pope Benedict).

FATHER ALPHONSE DE VALK, C.S.B.

EDITOR