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Top 8 Most Generous Ridings Giving $$$ to Anti-Choice Groups

Top 8 Most Generous Ridings Giving What happened $$$ to Anti-Choice Groups with the Canada Summer Jobs Human Rights Wall of Shame program? Individual Members of Parliament can direct Canada In April 2017, the Abortion Summer Jobs funding to Rights Coalition of Canada groups in their ridings. Some reported that many anti- ridings scored consistently choice groups had been getting federal government high for anti-choice grants. funding to hire summer How generous are these students under the Canada ridings to anti-choice groups? Summer Jobs (CSJ) program – about $1.7 Too generous! million since 2010! The top eight alone has given (Here’s the list with $760,000 to them from 2010 amounts and years: to 2017. We dug up the data https://goo.gl/4C1ZsC) below. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Employment Minister Patty Hajdu Riding MP Anti-choice Groups Amount quickly announced that Moncton-Riverview- ● Robert Goguen, ● Pregnancy & Wellness $285.6K Liberal ridings would no Dieppe CPC, to 2015 Centre of Moncton longer award CSJ funding ● Ginette Petitpas- ● Birthright to anti-choice groups, and Taylor, LPC, current that the government would Calgary Centre ● Joan Crockatt, CPC, ● Calgary Pregnancy Care $84.7 K look at ways to to 2015 Centre permanently change the ● Kent Hehr, LPC, program to prevent any current MP from allocating public Calgary Northeast ● Devinder Shory, ● Canadian Centre for Bio- $81.5 K CPC, to 2015 Ethical Reform funds to anti-choice groups. Guelph ● Frank Valeriote, ● Alliance for Life $67.9 K LPC, to 2015 ● Beginnings Family ● Lloyd Longfield, Services In December, an LPC, current ● Guelph Right to Life attestation requirement ● De Veber Institute was announced, requiring Mississauga South ● Paul Szabo, LPC ● Campaign Life Coalition $68.0 K eligible CSJ applicants to ● Stella Ambler, CPC, tick a box attesting that to 2015 their core mandate activity Mississauga–Erin ● Iqra Khalid, LPC ● Canadian Centre for Bio- $61.7 K and the summer job Mill Ethical Reform activity itself would respect ● De Veber Institute Charter rights and Renfrew-Nippissing- ● Cheryl Gallant, CPC ● First Steps Crisis $57.4 K Pembroke Pregnancy Centre associated human rights, ● Life Site News including reproductive and ● Priests for Life LGBT rights. “Respect” ● DeVeber Institute means to not work to Haldimand-Norfolk ● Diane Finley, CPC ● Haldimand Pregnancy $55.3K actively undermine those Care rights – it does not mean ● Norfolk Pregnancy Care support for them. Brought to you by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada • www.arcc-cdac.ca • [email protected] • Feb 2018 .

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