Current Action Items

03 Oct 2017 Help pass Manitoba’s Bill 34 to protect conscience rights

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Take Action with our EasyMail letter below – contact your MLA in 10 minutes or less! Following the federal government’s law that legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2016, Manitoba’s PC government introduced Bill 34 to protect the conscience rights of medical professionals who rightly don’t believe it is ethical to assist in killing. Already at the bill’s introduction the Manitoba NDP opposed it, saying it was unnecessary. Since then, it appears the NDP and independent MLA Steven Fletcher may be trying to directly or indirectly stall the bill, with the hopes...

03 Oct 2017 David Eggen at it again: more challenges for Alberta Christian Schools

Posted at 12:43h in Current Action Items, Education 0 Comments

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Last week Education Minister David Eggen once again came out swinging against Albertan parents and Christian schools, promising that the provincial government will be introducing new legislation that will force all Alberta schools that receive public money to have a code of conduct in place that singles out protection for students on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation. The legislation will also require school policies to make it clear that students have a “right” to establish gay-straight alliance clubs and would also make it illegal for...

15 Sep 2017 Infographic: Our Government is ignoring these facts about the impacts of pornography

Posted at 11:49h in Current Action Items, Sexuality 0 Comments

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Earlier this year the Federal Health Committee responded to Motion 47, the motion put forward by MP Arnold Viersen to study the public harms of pornography. Motion 47 was passed last year unanimously in the House of Commons. This motion had a lot of promise, and we were excited about what would result. As we reported earlier this year, the response from the Health Committee was absolutely inadequate, and betrayed a serious lack of concern on the part of the government about the issue of pornography and its impacts on...

13 Sep 2017 Ontario to introduce “Safe Access Zones” legislation targeting pro-lifers

Posted at 16:18h in Current Action Items, Justice and Freedom, Pre-Born Human Rights 0 Comments

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Take Action: Send an EasyMail letter to share your concerns about “Safe Access Zones” legislation with your Ontario MPP Ontario’s Minister of Justice, Yasir Naqvi, plans to introduce “Safe Access Zones” legislation – also referred to as “bubble zone” laws. This would prevent any pro-life messaging around abortion clinics, hospitals, and abortionists’ homes. This legislation is unnecessary, harmful, and even illegal. What is Safe Access Zones Legislation? Ontario is not the first province to introduce a bubble zone law. The proposed legislation will likely mirror BC’s Access to Abortion Services Act passed in 1996. This...

30 Aug 2017 ARPA at the Supreme Court: Trinity Western University

Posted at 12:25h in Current Action Items, Justice and Freedom 0 Comments

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UPDATE: Read the written arguments ARPA Canada submitted to the Supreme Court on September 5 here. The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the cases between Trinity Western University and the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario on November 30th and December 1st. ARPA Canada will intervene as it has done at many of the lower courts. History of the Case The law societies in British Columbia and Ontario refused to accept graduates from the proposed law school because of Trinity Western’s Community Covenant which requires students to refrain from sexual intimacy...

29 Aug 2017 ARPA at the Supreme Court: Wall v Jehovah’s Witnesses Congregation

Posted at 18:04h in Current Action Items, Justice and Freedom 0 Comments

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ARPA Canada will intervene in Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses et al v Randy Wall at the Supreme Court of Canada on November 2. UPDATE (Oct 4/17): see our written submissions to the Supreme Court here. Background of the Case Randy Wall was expelled – or disfellowshipped – from the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2014. The expulsion originated out of two instances of drunkenness and verbal abuse of his wife after which he failed to demonstrate repentance. As a result, Wall experienced a loss of earnings in his...

26 Jun 2017 Will Bill C-51 permit protests in church services?

Posted at 12:59h in Current Action Items, Justice and Freedom 1 Comment

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Take Action: Send an EasyMail letter to share your concerns about Bill C-51 with your MP Did you know that Canada’s Criminal Code (section 176) prohibits obstructing a “clergyman or minister” from “celebrating divine service or performing any other function in connection with his calling” or disturbing “an assemblage of persons met for religious worship”? That prohibition might not be there for long. A new government bill, Bill C-51 (which has passed its second reading and has been referred to committee), would delete these prohibitions from the Code. Would that mean removing legal protection for churches...

04 May 2017 New Ontario bill would make participation in euthanasia voluntary

Posted at 18:07h in Current Action Items, Euthanasia 0 Comments

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Take Action: Send an EasyMail letter to share your concerns with your MPP A new private member’s bill in Ontario, Bill 129, would allow doctors and nurses to refuse to participate in “medical assistance in dying”. Progressive Conservative MPP Jeff Yurek tabled Bill 129 earlier this week. The bill would amend the Regulated Health Professions Act to protect all regulated health professionals against civil, administrative, disciplinary, employment, credentialing, or other penalties for refusing toparticipate, directly or indirectly, in MAID. The bill makes it clear that medical professionals will not have to refer patients for MAID,...

04 Apr 2017 Bill S-206: The Bill to Ban Spanking

Posted at 09:45h in Current Action Items, Family 0 Comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhdoXnYlG1E Bill S-206, “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protection of children against standard child-rearing violence)”, will, if passed, remove a provision of the Criminal Code (section 43) that permits parents to use limited, minor physical force for disciplinary purposes. Section 43 states: “a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a… child… if the force does not exceed what is reasonable in the circumstances.” This section – as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada (at paragraphs 23-25, 37 of their judgment) – only permits disciplinary force that...

28 Mar 2017 Canada Must Start Monitoring “Medically Assisted Dying”

Posted at 13:16h in Current Action Items, Euthanasia 0 Comments

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Take Action: Send an EasyMail letter to share your concerns with your MP and MPP When the Supreme Court of Canada legalized assisted suicide in Carter (2015), it allayed concerns about abuse by quoting the words of the trial judge, who said the risks of legalized assisted suicide can be minimized (not eliminated) through a “carefully designed system that imposes strict limits that are scrupulously monitored and enforced.” Put another way, only through a carefully designed system that is “scrupulously monitored and enforced” can the inherent risks of a legalized assisted suicide regime...