No matter what the outcome of the federal election is, those who fight to give a voice to the unprotected unborn will not be represented by a meaningful voice in Parliament.
Meanwhile, in the critical last days before the April 28 vote, Prolife Alberta was “shocked” by a decision that left it scrambling to reach Albertans via its billboard awareness campaign, and unable able to reach its intended goal.
Whether driven by personal conviction or cowardly fear of losing the vote of militant pro-choice forces, no main federal party leader backs pro-life social conservatives.
Globalist Liberal leader Mark Carney, who declared he’s a practising Roman Catholic, “unreservedly” supports abortion.
Pope Francis called abortion homicide.
Powerful UN forces fight to fund and decriminalize abortion in countries that haven’t sunk to Canada’s level of depravity where there are no restrictions on abortion. But Carney somehow believes you can swing both ways. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh proudly made it his party’s mission to increase access to abortion and fight anti-choice abortion bills introduced now and then as Private Members' Bills in the House of Commons.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre firmly stands with Carney and Singh.
“I can guarantee you there will be no laws restricting abortion passed when I'm prime minister,” he said.
At least People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Max Bernier supports a national debate on Canada’s extreme abortion stand, one comparable only to North Korea’s.
Bernier said “my body, my choice” can’t be argued when a “fully developed unborn baby” is aborted during the third trimester; it amounts to “infanticide,” he says.
What a quandary this election poses for Canada’s significant bloc of pro-life voters, and voters who believe there should be some restrictions on abortion. Presently, it is offered at any time during a pregnancy for any reason, compliments of taxpayers.
Do they hold their noses and vote for the Conservative Party that takes them for granted and expects loyal support simply because it campaigns on other social conservative issues?
Or do they stay home and not vote because they can’t betray their consciences and support politicians who endorse sadistic abortion procedures?
For tearing apart a baby limb by limb in the womb is sadistic — and is allowed for fully developed babies, right up until birth because Canada has no criminal restrictions on abortion.
Of course, aborting a baby ready to be cradled and nurtured and loved is ‘compassionately’ justified as reproductive health care and a woman’s right to choose.
It also keeps a lot of people in the lucrative abortion industry employed.
Meanwhile, pro-lifers keep fighting an uphill battle by launching awareness campaigns, hoping voters will elect candidates who won’t endorse the abortion status quo.
But while trying to do that on the cusp of the election, Prolife Alberta ran into an unexpected obstacle.
Prolife Alberta has paid VENDO Media about $100,000 over the past two years, to run digital and static billboard campaigns in the province, said executive director Richard Dur. He described it as a good business relationship, without any issues.
On April 9 Dur e-mailed VENDO Media.
“I am interested in renewing the Medicine Hat location we had with you and possibly other locations besides (including Taber,)” wrote Dur. “Please let me know next steps.”
The next day he received a short reply from VENDO’s VP of sales Joe Kispal.
“Thank you for your interest in VENDO Media. However, we no longer execute campaigns for this category. Kind regards, Joe.”
No reason given. No thank you for business — $4,000 to $6,000 a month — “for the past two years.”
Of course, any company reserves the right to choose who it does business with. The question is why did VENDO cut ties with Prolife Alberta so close to the election?
Kispal did not return calls from the Western Standard.
“It was shocking actually because we had a long-standing relationship with them for almost two years and it was steady, and it was ongoing,” said Dur. “And then basically when we wanted to renew our advertising with them, we got a blanket rejection without explanation as to why.”
Prolife Alberta now has a “handful” of billboards up with an alternative company instead of the normal more than 35 throughout Alberta.
“Different companies serve different markets. So, it means that we’re unable to get our voice out in some markets in the province.”
“That just means we need to try harder. We’re disappointed but not deterred. We’ll be pursuing other ad spaces and public platforms, and that this is not just about a billboard, but about defending free speech, and standing up for truth.”
The two billboards in question are hardly as extreme as they could be, considering the sheer brutality of abortion procedures.
One ad features a mother with her baby with the words ‘Women and babies deserve better than abortion.’
The other simply says: ‘The reality of abortion is too disturbing for this billboard.’
“That second message was meant to highlight how abortion imagery is so shocking, it can’t even be shown in public.”
“Not only is the reality of abortion too disturbing for the billboard but just saying the reality is disturbing, is too disturbing. There’s a sick sort of irony that reflects the absurdity of it.”
It's no secret there’s a “concerted effort” by pro-choice militants “to silence pro-life voices in the public square.”
And no matter which party wins, there’s no reason to believe they won’t be emboldened to further target and crush the freedom of speech that pro-life Canadians are entitled to, but are too often denied.
“There is no mainstream major political party that represents social conservative voices. There are individual MPs in some of the mainstream parties, particularly the Conservative Party, so there’s some hope there but that really depends on your local MP.”
“Values that you hold dear are not being represented or reflected in those who are running for public office, especially if they ran at one time on the platform that did include social conservative voices. Then that is a betrayal of shared values.”
That has left “a good many” social conservatives feeling betrayed and “disillusioned.”
“You gotta give people something to vote for. If you’re not able to mobilize people to get out and vote, if you're not offering something that speaks to the values that they hold dear they’re going to stay home.”
Prolife Alberta and other organizations receive no government funding and depend solely on raising funds.
Meanwhile, the multi-million-dollar abortion industry receives ever-increasing government handouts that flourished under former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
That includes the $1.4 billion a year starting in 2023, up from $1.1 billion a year in 2019 and hundreds of millions since 2015 that Trudeau pledged to fund “reproductive health services” — abortion — worldwide.
He never asked struggling Canadians — no matter what their stand on abortion is — if they were OK with that.
Now’s the time to ask candidates if they’re OK with that.
And ask them as well, if they’re OK with pro-life Canadians being treated like lepers and their organizations being denied funding and an equal voice. Get them on the record, then vote accordingly.
If disillusioned social conservatives stay home on election day, they’re handing the Liberal abortion zealots a win without a fight.
As disappointing as Poilievre’s stand is, hope lies in the Conservatives — only them — levelling the fiscal playing field.
A sliver of hope is better than none. Sad, eh?