Would-be Liberal party leadership candidate Michael Clark, who opposes Liberal sweetheart issues like abortion, MAiD and globalism, missed qualification criteria by only 30 signatures. To be contender in the leadership race, the Liberal party required a $350,000 buy-in and 100 signatures each from three different provinces.Clark garnered more than enough signatures in Ontario, his home province, and Alberta — but was still 30 John Hancocks short in Saskatchewan. He told the Western Standard Friday morning that within an hour of the deadline, 5 p.m. EST, he had enough signature forms rolling in that he would have qualified. “We had hundreds in Alberta, hundreds in Ontario,” said Clark, admitting it was a long shot for someone with Christian values to be running for the now extreme leftist Liberal Party of Canada. .WATCH: Liberal candidate Michael Clark launches pro-life, anti-globalist campaign.Anyone can vote in the Liberal leadership race — as long as they sign up as a member of the Liberal party prior to January 27, which is possible, at no cost, for anyone 14 or older who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.“There are so many funny stories that have come from this. Because if you actually think about it, what were we all asking people to do?” said Clark.“We were asking pro-life people, which are usually Christians, which are usually the ultra right, to say, ‘hey, we're gonna sign up for the Liberal party today.’”Clark painted the picture of someone of that persuasion trying to convince their spouse to get on board with joining the Liberals.“What a mindbend,” he said.“A lot of people said, ‘I just can't do it. I'm sorry — I can't sign up for the Liberal party.’”“If we had probably one or two more hours, like, by five o'clock (MST), they had come in.”“We had people literally in Ottawa at printers — we did get enough, we just didn't get them all processed (in time). And they're still actually pouring in,” he added, adding that people didn’t understand there was such a tight deadline, as he only announced his candidacy earlier this week..Pro-life candidate Michael Clark enters Liberal leadership race.The Western Standard asked Clark if he will run as a political candidate again."When's the next NDP leadership race?" Clark retorted, laughing.“I don't want to make it like a total joke, if I were to run for the NDP, my message to Christians would be like, don't worry about all that stuff."“Just take over everything for God.”Clark explained it was always a long shot, but he would do it again, for the sake of making Canada better, and to have more leaders in Ottawa who operate on biblical values.“Every single person every day is looking for something to do — to be useful in their jobs and make their bosses notice them and (to do well),” said Clark.“We're all looking for that every day. So to kind of find this little weird angle of like, hey, you know, I might just have a shot.”“But imagine if in 50 years a Christian was running the Conservative party, and we were all arguing with theological things in the House of Commons.”“One thing I took from this was it’s okay to do something really crazy, something that's weird, something that doesn't fit any boxes.”.Josh Alexander takes fight to return to school to the courts.Clark said his message to the Church is, “imagine every Christian in Canada did something a little crazy and weird and cool for God this year that was out of their norm, out of their box.”“There were times in history where we were kind of in charge, and Christianity formed the legal system, the political system, the justice system, hospital, schooling.”“So I just feel like my job is to be like a defibrillator to the nation and to the church — to show that you can do something weird.”Clark is the CEO of the Christian Impact Network and was general manager for Josh Alexander, the high school boy who was suspended for speaking against transgender bathroom systems on campus.Clarke said he was astounded by Alexander’s bravery and resilience, and thought to himself, the world needs more young people like this.“It hit me like a ton of bricks,” said Clark.“One Josh is good. We need 1000 Joshs.”The revelation prompted Clark to work toward establishing a Canada-wide initiative for young people called the David and Goliath program, which would raise up youth on fire for God who want to contribute to society in a biblical way.Young people through the soon-to-be established program will enter into mentorship and other training in the sector of society where they want to develop their strengths.“This is going to be happening, Lord willing, in every province,” said Clark.“We're going to get a cohort of the top 1% of all the kids in the youth groups, and we're going to train them for multi years to become Christian lawyers, Christian politicians, Christian journalists.”Clark added there are about a dozen MPs he has personally spoken with that support the David and Goliath program, along with “dozens of Christian lawyers."
Would-be Liberal party leadership candidate Michael Clark, who opposes Liberal sweetheart issues like abortion, MAiD and globalism, missed qualification criteria by only 30 signatures. To be contender in the leadership race, the Liberal party required a $350,000 buy-in and 100 signatures each from three different provinces.Clark garnered more than enough signatures in Ontario, his home province, and Alberta — but was still 30 John Hancocks short in Saskatchewan. He told the Western Standard Friday morning that within an hour of the deadline, 5 p.m. EST, he had enough signature forms rolling in that he would have qualified. “We had hundreds in Alberta, hundreds in Ontario,” said Clark, admitting it was a long shot for someone with Christian values to be running for the now extreme leftist Liberal Party of Canada. .WATCH: Liberal candidate Michael Clark launches pro-life, anti-globalist campaign.Anyone can vote in the Liberal leadership race — as long as they sign up as a member of the Liberal party prior to January 27, which is possible, at no cost, for anyone 14 or older who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.“There are so many funny stories that have come from this. Because if you actually think about it, what were we all asking people to do?” said Clark.“We were asking pro-life people, which are usually Christians, which are usually the ultra right, to say, ‘hey, we're gonna sign up for the Liberal party today.’”Clark painted the picture of someone of that persuasion trying to convince their spouse to get on board with joining the Liberals.“What a mindbend,” he said.“A lot of people said, ‘I just can't do it. I'm sorry — I can't sign up for the Liberal party.’”“If we had probably one or two more hours, like, by five o'clock (MST), they had come in.”“We had people literally in Ottawa at printers — we did get enough, we just didn't get them all processed (in time). And they're still actually pouring in,” he added, adding that people didn’t understand there was such a tight deadline, as he only announced his candidacy earlier this week..Pro-life candidate Michael Clark enters Liberal leadership race.The Western Standard asked Clark if he will run as a political candidate again."When's the next NDP leadership race?" Clark retorted, laughing.“I don't want to make it like a total joke, if I were to run for the NDP, my message to Christians would be like, don't worry about all that stuff."“Just take over everything for God.”Clark explained it was always a long shot, but he would do it again, for the sake of making Canada better, and to have more leaders in Ottawa who operate on biblical values.“Every single person every day is looking for something to do — to be useful in their jobs and make their bosses notice them and (to do well),” said Clark.“We're all looking for that every day. So to kind of find this little weird angle of like, hey, you know, I might just have a shot.”“But imagine if in 50 years a Christian was running the Conservative party, and we were all arguing with theological things in the House of Commons.”“One thing I took from this was it’s okay to do something really crazy, something that's weird, something that doesn't fit any boxes.”.Josh Alexander takes fight to return to school to the courts.Clark said his message to the Church is, “imagine every Christian in Canada did something a little crazy and weird and cool for God this year that was out of their norm, out of their box.”“There were times in history where we were kind of in charge, and Christianity formed the legal system, the political system, the justice system, hospital, schooling.”“So I just feel like my job is to be like a defibrillator to the nation and to the church — to show that you can do something weird.”Clark is the CEO of the Christian Impact Network and was general manager for Josh Alexander, the high school boy who was suspended for speaking against transgender bathroom systems on campus.Clarke said he was astounded by Alexander’s bravery and resilience, and thought to himself, the world needs more young people like this.“It hit me like a ton of bricks,” said Clark.“One Josh is good. We need 1000 Joshs.”The revelation prompted Clark to work toward establishing a Canada-wide initiative for young people called the David and Goliath program, which would raise up youth on fire for God who want to contribute to society in a biblical way.Young people through the soon-to-be established program will enter into mentorship and other training in the sector of society where they want to develop their strengths.“This is going to be happening, Lord willing, in every province,” said Clark.“We're going to get a cohort of the top 1% of all the kids in the youth groups, and we're going to train them for multi years to become Christian lawyers, Christian politicians, Christian journalists.”Clark added there are about a dozen MPs he has personally spoken with that support the David and Goliath program, along with “dozens of Christian lawyers."
