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www.theinterim.com PAGE 2 — THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 Socons Erin O’Toole and and the CPC the direction of the CPC Paul Tuns terms of total votes, the two life candidates dropped off free votes for MPs. We’ll wait Analysis socially liberal candidates the ballot.” and see: nearly every lead- had more points. O’Toole, This is not the first time ership contender promises On August 24, Erin O’Toole based on his strength in this has happened. Andrew free votes for caucus. Few won the Conservative Party Quebec, where there are 75 Scheer won in 2017 because actually follow through on of Canada leadership, most- ridings but relatively fewer of down-ballot support he that promise. ly on the strength of support members (about 13,000 of received from Brad Trost Debates and votes are as a second- or third-choice the party’s 270,000), kept and Pierre Lemieux vot- meaningless, however, if of pro-life and other socially him in contention. ers. Scheer would not have pro-life MPs and the socially or all the post-election hand-wringing about whether conservative members of the As Campaign Life won if the pro-life stalwarts conservative base, are not Fsocial conservatism was, in the words of Peter MacKay, party who voted for Derek Coalition noted in its lead- had not signed up so many allowed to win policy argu- the “stinking albatross” that cost Andrew Scheer Canada’s Sloan and Leslyn Lewis. ership election analysis, “of grassroots supporters in the ments. Freedom to speak premiership in 2019, the Conservative Party of Canada’s O’Toole was behind course, it is the points that first place. up about issues and vote leadership race revealed, once again, that social conserva- presumptive frontrunner one’s conscience is not the tives are an invaluable and inexorable part of the coun- Peter MacKay after the first point; freedom to win, if try’s conservative movement. and second ballot. On the they can muster the num- While a self-described “pro-choice candidate,” Erin first ballot, Campaign Life bers, is the minimum con- O’Toole emerged as the victor; his win can be directly Coalition green-lit candi- dition social conservatives linked to down-ballot support from voters who had ini- dates Sloan and Lewis com- should accept. Pro-life and tially opted for the race’s two pro-life candidates, Derek bined for 35 per cent of pro-family Conservatives are Sloan and Leslyn Lewis. the points and nearly 40 asking for a level playing While O’Toole and MacKay agree on social issues, the per cent of the votes. (Each field on which they can win, split came down to O’Toole’s stated willingness to stand riding in the Conservative whether it be in a nomi- up for conscience rights for those in his caucus, in con- leadership race is worth 100 nation fight or in a policy trast with MacKay’s frequent wavering on (among other points, which are divvied up battle. things) free votes for members of parliament. by the percentage that each Erin O’Toole’s first days It’s the ranked ballot that gives social conservatives candidate gets locally.) Leslyn Lewis announced Derek Sloan was not as leader were not promis- such a strong voice, which is why the trajectory from this O’Toole garnered that she will run in Haldimand- included in Erin O’Toole’s ing. In his first press con- year’s leadership race elicits déjà vu. down-ballot support by Norfolk. shadow cabinet. ference, O’Toole declared, It’s the same path that delivered Andrew Scheer a nar- repeatedly saying during “I won the leadership of row victory in 2017, nudged over the finish line by sup- the campaign that he would matter, but everyone has to Scheer was not rated pro- the Conservative Party as a port from Brad Trost’s and Pierre Lemieux’s voters. It is respect the views of social acknowledge this popular life by CLC in 2017, nor was pro-choice Conservative MP, also what even more narrowly gave Doug Ford the edge conservative voters and MPs, vote is a strong indicator O’Toole in 2020. But Scheer, one with a strong mandate. over Christine Elliott in the PC Party of Ontario’s 2018 and that he wanted to lead of the strength of the pro- because of his pro-life That’s how I’m going to lead leadership race, thanks to Tanya Granic Allen’s kingmak- a truly big tent party that life Lewis’ support.” And, it record as an MP and O’Toole as the leader of the oppo- ing. included pro-life and pro- should be noted, a strong because of his gestures of sition.” That talking point These stories are all too familiar to Canada’s social con- family conservatives, and indicator of the size and tolerance toward pro-lifers won praise from the pro- servatives, yet they stand in stark contrast to the narrative that his party had “no alba- importance of the socially compared to MacKay, were abortion leader of the NDP, that persists about conservative politics – or Conservative trosses.” That last remark conservative base in the not vociferously opposed Jagmeet Singh. O’Toole is politics, rather – in the mainstream media. was a pointed reminder party. Both Lewis and Sloan by the socially conservative playing to the wrong crowd. There was no shortage of current and former that MacKay blamed social said they were pro-life and base within the party. The In his first print inter- Conservative staffers lining up to appear on CBC and conservatives for the Liberal offered a suite of pro-life lesson is clear: one cannot view, O’Toole reiterated that CTV after the last election talking about the importance re-election in 2019, when policies; they were both win the leadership of the he would walk in a pride of pushing back against the ‘social conservative stuff’ in he called the pro-life issue outspoken about parental Conservative Party when parade if police are allowed the next generation of the party. “They don’t speak for the the “stinking albatross rights, conscience rights, opposed by social conserva- to participate and that one Conservative party as a whole.” “They are a loud minor- around the neck” of the and freedom of speech, and tives. of his priorities was allow- ity.” “We need to be more inclusive.” Conservative Party because critical of the LGBTQ ideol- Yet, social conservatives – ing men who have sex with Variations of these observations were ubiquitous then-leader Andrew Scheer ogy, including bans on con- who help decide leadership men (as it is designated) to throughout the course of the race, yet here we are with had formerly held pro-life version therapy. races and make the bulk of donate blood. (And lest you a Conservative leader elected in no small part due to a views (never mind that CPC As the media noted on grassroots volunteers – are think he sounds liberal on mandate from social conservatives. leader Scheer vowed to the night of the leadership still often treated like sec- moral issues but is other- O’Toole courted them and MacKay ran against them. not reopen the issue if he announcement, O’Toole ond-class members within wise conservative, he told The results speak for themselves. formed government). won because he had the the party. O’Toole was not the Globe and Mail that he O’Toole’s position on conscience rights is a ten- Sloan was eliminated backing of socially conserva- hostile to social conserva- would balance the budget able one in that it preserves the oft-cited Big Blue Tent after the first round, but not tive voters who voted first tives, but the tolerance he “in a decade or so” and that approach to the Conservative party. It’s supposed to be before winning about 15 per and foremost for pro-life showed was not backed by another priority is increas- the canopy under which red Tories and blue Tories, social cent of the points. Lewis leadership contenders. CLC much in terms of policy. ing immigration.) conservatives and libertarians can all get along and wave had an impressive show- was blunt: “Erin O’Toole O’Toole has done nothing to None of this is new. the same banner in an election. Yet despite the promise ing on the second ballot owes his leadership win to indicate that social conserva- O’Toole was given a red of making a more ‘inclusive’ conservative party, it seems once two-third of Sloan vot- the fact that far more of tive values will be the basis light from CLC because of the red Tories are the ones who want the tent to be only ers were re-apportioned to Lewis and Sloan’s points got of Conservative Party policy. his track record on abortion large enough to fit everyone but values voters in it. her, and although she leapt reallocated to him than to He will tolerate some debate and transgender “rights” so I can’t recall ever hearing a socially conservative MP or over O’Toole and MacKay in MacKay once the two pro- within the party, promising See ‘Social‘ p. 10 leadership candidate publicly rebuke any other faction of the party. They don’t expect a 100 per cent socially conservative party – just a party that remains a home for social conservatives. John Turner, RIP The leadership results prove how essential that is. Paul Tuns other Canadian politician, procedure. He consulted Bishops, through Bishop No one can expect to have any sort of mandate from he translated the spirit of theologians and bishops, Alexander Carter, accepted the Conservative grassroots, let alone the country, by John Turner, the jus- the 1960s into substantial none of whom counselled Turner’s explanation that actively eschewing a bloc of supporters whose views are tice minister in Pierre changes to the laws of the Turner to enact protection the therapeutic abortion aligned, despite what the mainstream media purports, Trudeau’s government land.” The Omnibus Bill for the preborn or resign. committees were the best with millions of Canadian voters. when Parliament passed the was mostly drawn up by the Litt claims that Turner want- “compromise” he could get. It’s important to put part of the blame for this on the Omnibus Bill that permit- ed to divide the 120-clause The therapeutic abor- media. Despite O’Toole’s decidedly pro-choice stance, ted abortion, has died at criminal law omnibus tion committees effectively he still fielded four questions about abortion and social age 91. reform bill and allow a free rubber-stamped abortion conservatism in his first press conference as Conservative Turner is known as the vote on some of its more applications, and the num- leader. second shortest serving contentious moral issues. ber of abortions skyrocket- The “scary conservative with a hidden social conser- prime minister (11 weeks in Trudeau did not budge, ed to the tens of thousands vative agenda” card will get played no matter what, so 1984) and the Liberal leader having no interest in com- within a few years of being leaders and candidates might as well be authentic to their who lost to Brian Mulroney promise. permitted. Even if abor- beliefs and respect the country’s conservative movement twice, including the free Litt says that abortion tion still remained in the for what it is. trade election of 1988. His “challenged Turner to rec- Criminal Code, the actions The pro-life movement doesn’t simply have an effect political star rose in the oncile his private religious of the hospital abortion because of its size, but also because of its level of organi- 1960s when, after finishing beliefs with his public duty committees effectively cre- zation. Gun rights activists are great at mobilizing, but I fourth in the Liberal leader- as a politician” and that it ated abortion-on-demand. have to designate social conservatives as being the most ship race to replace Lester John Turner raised “two basic questions In 1988, the Supreme organized faction when it comes to leadership and nomi- Pearson, in whose cabinet previous government, while – one a matter of politics, Court of Canada threw out nation races. he held numerous posts, he Pierre Trudeau was minis- the other of conscience.” the Criminal Code provi- Much of this, I suspect, comes from most social con- was chosen by then Prime ter of justice, but Turner Litt reports that Turner sion that therapeutic abor- servatives’ adherence to some religious denomination or Minister Pierre Trudeau to helped usher it through ultimately justified passing tion committees needed to another. Through churches there are already networks, become the justice minis- parliament. Included in it the Omnibus Bill because approve abortions, saying mailing lists and other opportunities to organize and ter (1968-1972) and later were fewer restrictions on it “downloaded the issue that the law was unevenly engage. finance minister (1972- abortion and homosexual- to doctors” who, Turner applied across the country. But the real success of social conservatives in affect- 1975). He resigned his seat ity and tougher rules on thought, should be making By that time, nearly 1.5 mil- ing political races lies in their understanding that there in 1975 and returned to guns and drunk driving. medical decisions. lion babies had been killed will never be change in government on issues of moral politics nine years leader to Turner, a Catholic, is Turner’s hand-picked by abortion. No abortion concern without providing a base of support for the poli- become the Liberal leader. said to have struggled with Catholic theologians, Litt law has been passed since ticians with the values and courage to champion such It was as justice minister liberalizing abortion. The writes, advised the justice then to protect children in change. that Turner made his mark. Omnibus Bill permitted minister that he should the womb. At a minimum this means giving a voice to the social Paul Litt says in his biog- abortion when a hospital not impose his morals Turner is survived by his conservatives in the grassroots. As MacKay has learned, raphy of Turner, Elusive therapeutic abortion com- on others. The Canadian wife, Geills Kilgour, and scorn them at your peril. Destiny, “more than any mittee approved the lethal Conference of Catholic four children. THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 — PAGE 3 Pro-life friendly premier Two New Brunswick candidates dropped wins majority in NB over LGBTQ posts Paul Tuns 14, the opposition par- she would tweet her sup- New Brunswick joined In what has become almost allowed the social media ties renewed calls to fund port. the NDP in attacking the a ritual during elections, post to not flag a potential Going back to the polls Clinic 554. Not all PC candidates Liberals for the policy it held both the PCs and Liberals problem. two years after winning On August 17, agreed with their govern- under Gallant. New Liberal dropped a candidate after The Liberals also a minority government, Lieutenant Governor ment. Jill Green, the PC leader, Kevin Vickers, who social media posts on dropped a candidate, Blaine Higgs’ Progressive Brenda Murphy drew the candidate for Fredericton as ambassador to Ireland LGBTQ issues resurfaced with Vickers announcing Conservatives won a major- writs of election after Higgs North, said during the cam- last year held a victory during the campaign. that John Gardner would ity in Canada’s first COVID- requested she dissolve the paign, “I think the services party when abortion was Higgs announced that not be allowed to sit as 19 pandemic election in legislature, even though that Clinic 554 provides are legalized through an Irish Roland Michaud was a Liberal if the candidate a campaign in which the the next election was not important to have in our referendum, reversed his dropped as the candidate won in St. Croix. In a 2017 abortion issue featured scheduled until Oct. 17, community.” However, she party’s position and said he in Victoria-La Vallee after post, Gardner said, “In an prominently. 2022 as determined by the said that may or may not favoured increasing abor- it was reported that he age of sanitizing history In 2018, the PCs won 22 province’s fixed-date elec- include funding Clinic 554, tion access, including fund- shared a meme that media and not offending anyone, of the New Brunswick legis- tions. Polls showed the PCs indicating she supports a ing Clinic 554. reports said “suggested isn’t it time the LGBT com- lature’s 49 seats, while the ahead of the Liberals and local hospital. “I will advo- When the legislature was physical violence against munity stop offending the Liberals won 21. PC leader Higgs said he needed a cate to have the services that dissolved, the Tories and transgender women when Christian and Jewish com- Blaine Higgs became lead- Liberals each had 20 seats, they use washrooms.” munity and stop using the er because of the support the Greens had three, and Michaud, who remained rainbow as their symbol, of three People’s Alliance People’s Alliance had two. on the ballot but would as it has a strong biblical MLAs. There were also There was one indepen- not be part of the PC cau- significance?” After being three Green MPs. dent. cus if he prevailed, apolo- dropped as a Liberal, When the Liberals were The Tories won 27 seats gized for sharing the post, Gardner said he is a mem- in power, Premier Brian and Liberals were reduced but added: “I’m a blue col- ber of the LGBTQ com- Gallant rescinded the pro- to 17. The Greens won lar, ordinary guy just like munity and his post was vincial rule that a second three, while the People’s you and ordinary people “pointing out the way in doctor had to approve an Alliance won two. Higgs make mistakes.” He still which we all fight for our abortion, but despite pres- got his majority and Vickers won nearly 30 per cent of rights, and sometimes con- sure to extend full funding did not even win his seat. the vote against the Liberal flict.” Gardner garnered to a private abortion facil- He resigned as leader incumbent, who won. about 400 votes as the ity, refused. The 554 Clinic, immediately. Higgs told reporters he Liberals fell from second in a private, for-profit medi- Cole Davidson, a spokes- would ask his party about 2018 to fourth last month. cal practice that carries out man for federal Health its vetting process that - Paul Tuns abortions and caters to Minister Patty Hadju, told the LGBTQ community in Huffington Post Canada, Fredericton, began a cam- “We will ensure that the paign in 2019 to get full New Brunswick govern- Calgary to funding, saying it would ment eliminates patient close by the end of the year charges for abortion ser- without it. Despite pres- vices outside of hospitals,” restrict ‘advocacy sure from the federal gov- but declined to comment ernment, including punish- about whether it would messaging’ near ing the province by cutting take the province to court. back health transfer pay- “We will use all options schools ments to New Brunswick, NDP candidate Cait Grogan takes part in a pro-abortion available to defend a Higgs and Health Minister protest against N.B. Premier Blaine Higgs on August 22. woman’s right to choose, Interim Staff debate, “I think it’s impor- Ted Flemming remained including those that exist tant to remember the prob- steadfast that they were not majority to deal with the are provided at Clinic 554 under the Canada Health Calgary city council is con- lem we’re trying to solve in violation of the Canada post-pandemic economic be located in Fredericton Act,” he said. sidering banning advo- here. It’s that harm factor.” Health Act because abor- challenges New Brunswick for our residents,” she said Jeff Gunnarson, national cacy displays near schools He called the proposed tion is available in three faced. in a Facebook video. Dr. president of Campaign Life after a council committee bylaw “fair.” Councillor hospitals, two in Moncton No sooner had the Brian MacKinnon, who ran Coalition, told The Interim, approved the proposed Gian-Carlo Carra said the and one in Bathurst. Higgs campaign started when for the PCs in Fredericton that the PC government bylaw on Sept. 9. proposed bylaw is about said on a local radio show stories about Clinic 554 South, told the CBC radio is “pro-life friendly” and The new rules, if passed, protecting children: “You last year, that if anyone dis- and “abortion access” show Information Morning Higgs’ re-election shows would prohibit any signs have a captive audience agrees with the province’s began to appear in local Fredericton that “I under- that candidates and par- larger than a postcard (5 that has no ability to decide abortion funding policy, he media. In Higgs’ riding of stand (abortion) access is ties can win when they inches by 3.5 inches) that whether they want to be would be glad to defend it Quispamsis, the PC leader a problem.” He also said it speak forthrightly on so- express an opinion on subjected to certain mes- in court. was followed for the first was necessary to increase called controversial issues any issue or cause within saging or not and that Despite threats to close, days by pro-abortion activ- services to individuals who like abortion funding. 150 metres of a school, certain messaging can be the husband and wife own- ists, including NDP candi- identify as LGBTQ in the He also noted that Higgs although the bylaw would harmful.” ers kept the facility open, date Cait Grogan, holding community. Green won, has attended the New not apply to school prop- The city’s law depart- and when Higgs called signs. When she could not but MacKinnon did not. Brunswick March for Life erty, which falls under the ment told the commit- an early election for Sept. join their demonstration, Reproductive Justice in the past. jurisdiction of the school tee the restriction on free board. The rule would assembly and free speech apply only on school days is a justifiable one under B.C. pink flag display highlights between 7:30 am and 9 the Canadian Charter of pm, and would not apply Rights and Freedoms. to private property. Those Farkas, the sole dissent- sex-selective abortions caught breaking the bylaw er of the proposed new Interim Staff at which time government pre-born girls who are being on this issue, with 84 per could face fines of up to bylaw, said the new restric- bills that were not passed aborted simply because of cent stating that sex-selec- $1000. tion may outlaw demon- On Sept. 12, three MPs “die;” private members’ their sex,” said Wagantall tive abortion should be “We engaged with every strations that he viewed joined three pink flag dis- bills are re-instated in the in a statement released to illegal. This is reasonable school board and district to as valid, because it would plays organized by We new session. Parliament the press. common ground that every understand that there is an mean students themselves Need a Law in the British was set to resume with the “The pink flags are a member of parliament must issue with advocacy mes- could not take part in dem- Columbia lower mainland. thoughtfully consider.” saging positioned directly onstration near their own The displays were intended Wagantall added, “I’m outside of schools, creat- schools. “The students to inform the public about very encouraged by the ing a captive audience of aren’t going to be able to the practice of sex-selective public response to my bill. unwilling and impression- protest climate change,” he abortion in Canada, which Thousands have signed the able viewers . . . who can- pointed out. “They aren’t studies have indicated tar- petition and are spreading not avoid being exposed going to be able to protest, get girl preborn children in the word, but many more to the explicit messaging,” say, racism in the commu- some immigrant communi- are just now learning about said city business strategist nity. They’re not going to ties. the issue. Often, those I Stacey McManaman. be able to protest condi- MP Cathay Wagantall speak to are in disbelief In 2019, Councillor tions in the schools.” (CPC, Yorkton-Melville), that a country like Canada Druh Farrell asked city staff He said, “It’s really dis- who introduced Bill would permit this type of to look into preventing turbing to me that council C-233, the Sex Selective abortion.” children from seeing what would want to do some- Abortion Act, in Parliament Wagantall also tweet- she characterized as “harm- thing for the students but in February, attended and ed pictures of the display ful expression” after she through this big loophole spoke at the three events, and a short video of her received complaints about actually restrict their ability two in Langley and one in Conservative MPs Cathay Wagantall (left) and Tamara comments, in which she a group of pro-life protest- to participate in democra- Chilliwack, to raise aware- Jansen take part in a pink flag display in Langley, B.C. explained the need for her ers demonstrating in front cy.” Farkas asked city staff to ness of sex-selective abor- Picture: Tamara Jansen’s Facebook page bill and thanked those who of Queen Elizabeth High work on new wording that tion and garner support for Speech from the Throne visual and stark reminder came out in support of the School. would exempt students her private member’s bill. on Sept. 23, as The that our country has a long displays. The community and from the buffer zones pre- If passed, C-233 would Interim went to press. way to go in defending the The Saskatchewan MP protective services commit- venting free speech around outlaw abortion based on “I would like to thank rights of women and girls, as was joined by two local tee passed the proposed schools. the sex of the preborn all of the wonderful vol- well as equality between the colleagues, Tamara Jansen statute 5-1 with Councillor Cameron Cote, western child. Prime Minister Justin unteers for allowing me sexes,” Wagantall explained. (CPC, Cloverdale-Langley Jeromy Farkas as the sole outreach director with the Trudeau had Parliament to stand with them in “Thankfully, Canadians of City) and Tako Van Popta dissenter. Councillor Jeff group Canadian Centre for prorogued on August 18, defending the rights of nearly all beliefs are united (Langley-Aldergrove). Davison said during the See ‘Unpopular‘ p. 6 PAGE 4 — THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 Keep America n 1994, the United States of America violence wielded against this generation Iwas enjoying peace and prosperity. in the womb is now being used by them The Cold War was over, the economy in the streets. The 20th century sowed was thriving, and the third-youngest the winds; the whirlwind is now being president in the country’s history had reaped. recently been elected; he and his centrist Against the backdrop of this crisis, a policies enjoyed popular support. And presidential election looms. The incum- yet, even as the good times were roll- bent has an unconventional style and ing, a 5-foot-tall Albanian religious sister a talent for inspiring strong feelings offered this country a dire warning and a amongst admirers and detractors alike. heartfelt plea for peace. On Feb. 3, at the His campaign slogan in the previous elec- National Prayer Breakfast, Mother Teresa tion was: “Make American Great Again”; of Calcutta declared that the “greatest this time around, it was (before the pan- destroyer of peace today is abortion, demic’s arrival): “Keep America Great.” because it is a war against the child ... Those, however, are not possibilities Any country that accepts abortion is not which the country has in prospect: the teaching its people to love, but to use choice it now faces is more primordial. violence to get what they want.” She con- In 1787, at the close of the cluded her remarks by saying that, only Constitutional Convention in in defending life in the womb, will the Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was United States “be true to what the found- asked what kind of country had emerged ers of this country stood for.” That year, in these meetings, a question to which the GDP grew by 4 per cent. he famously quipped: “A republic, if you A quarter-century on, this same can keep it.” This, then, in 2020, is what nation now teeters on the edge of chaos. the country must decide: whether or not Violence and civil strife plague cities to keep America at all. The United States across the country. The chain of events has been so damaged by the corrosive leading to this unrest can be rehearsed evil of abortion that the nation itself is easily enough: a global pandemic and now imperiled. Only a leader who recog- its disruptions, viral videos of incidents nizes prenatal infanticide as a peculiarly involving the police, and protests that iniquitous institution will be able to look less like modern-day civil rights bring America back from the brink. marches and more like scenes from the To aid the country in this hour of deci- various “colour revolutions” in foreign sion, it would seem that God has sent countries. But is America simply the vic- America another nun. At the Republican tim of a catastrophic confluence of bad Convention this summer, Sister Dede luck? Can its present distress simply be Byrne, a former soldier and physician blamed on these obvious and immediate who is now a member of the Little catalysts? Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus Tellingly, those in the streets take a and Mary, offered the follow judgement: different view. The “systemic racism” and “Donald Trump is the most pro-life presi- “structural inequality” that they decry dent this nation has ever had, defending have deeper origins and require, by defi- life at all stages. His belief in the sanctity nition, a root-and-branch restructuring of of life transcends politics.” We do not dis- society at all levels. Indeed, the solution agree. While his personality and certain that they propose is nothing less than a of his policies may offend some, Trump Marxist revolution. While the deadly cure has done more for the unborn than any The Interim welcomes letters of 300 words they prescribe is infinitely worse than previous American president. Moreover, or fewer. Letters may be edited. Please send to: the disease, these radicals are neverthe- a second term offers the real prospect less right to sense something profoundly for a Supreme Court decision overturn- The Interim 157 Catharine St. N. Hamilton, unhealthy in the American body politic. ing Roe v. Wade, an event that would be ON, L8L 4S4 What these protestors fail to see are transformative for the pro-life movement E-mail: [email protected] precisely the missing members of their worldwide. etters Fax: (416) 204-1027 own generation. To paraphrase George The Declaration of Independence L Bernard Shaw, today’s protestors look at opens by acknowledging that, at certain, things the way they are, and ask “why?” pivotal moments, it becomes necessary and topple statues, laws, and public fig- for “one people…to assume among Socons and the even dare to bring up such proposals. ures that give no good answer. But they the powers of the earth, a separate and Yet, ironically enough, socon and pro- should, instead, dream of things that equal station.” Two and a half centu- Conservative Party life organizations who make the abortion never were, and ask “why not?” That is to ries on, America needs to resume this I am sorry but I cannot get too excited and same-sex marriage issues “hills to die say, they should demand an account on place, beginning with a renewed respect about the favourable showing of social on” make no comment (as far as I know) behalf of their own generation’s unborn for life in the womb. By abjuring what conservative candidates Derek Sloan and on the silence of the two socon candidates victims of violence. After all, a child born Mother Teresa once called the “greatest Leslyn Lewis in the federal Conservative on these two concerns. Nothing has been in 1994 would be 26 today: how many destroyer of peace today,” America would Party leadership race. Even if either one of mentioned by either two on same-sex leaders, how many artists, how many not only make a great advance towards the two had won, it would still be a steep “marriage,” and neither have proposed priests -- indeed, how many would-be peace: it would restore, to their rightful and tall hill to climb in order to convert (if outlawing abortion, instead offering only parents -- were never born then to be place, the very truths which its founding ever) a Conservative Liberal-lite party to be some vague reference that the vulnerable among us now? document declared to be self-evident: like the Christian Heritage Party – to heed have a right to life. What we see on the streets of America, “that all men,” born and unborn, “are the preamble of the Charter of Rights and It’s all so ambiguous, for Christians and then, is a revolt of the maimed remain- created equal, that they are endowed by Freedoms, recognizing both the suprema- socons to use this Trojan horse method der, a rebellion by the survivors of abor- their Creator with certain unalienable cy of God and the rule of law. to internally attempt to change a politi- tion who have learned its fatal lesson all Rights…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of True, some inroads based on conserva- cal party in order to embrace the Judeo- too well. Recall Mother Teresa’s warning: Happiness.” We pray that our southern tive Biblical values over a period of time Christian ethos. In my opinion, this is “Any country that accepts abortion is not neighbor chooses to do just this by giv- could be made within the Conservative leading from behind and only serves to teaching its people to love, but to use ing its most pro-life president a second Party, such as the defunding of abor- prop up a political party to live for another violence to get what they want.” The term. tion overseas, more religious freedom, term and to govern as babies are killed and granting of conscientious rights. But by abortion. It is so much better to lead where it counts most on the two big sticks by example – leading from the front by carried by the social conservative move- endorsing, supporting, and voting for the Thanksgiving ments being the abortion and same-sex Christian Heritage Party. .K Chesterton said, “When we were hands and feet on earth in the work “marriage” issues, how would any social I don’t mean to be controversial or con- Gchildren we were grateful to those defending the sanctity of all human life. conservative candidate fare within the tentious, realizing there are differences of who filled our stockings at Christmas And we remember the oft-used line of Jim party if he or she were to insist that there opinions in strategy even as we share a time. Why are we not grateful to God for Hughes, president emeritus of Campaign needs to be legislation enacted to outlaw common goal. It would be good if it were filling our stockings with legs?” As always, Life Coalition, who thanked God for abortion or rescind same-sex “marriage”? possible that all pro-life organizations got there is much wisdom in Chesterton’s the opportunity to share a small piece Such bold demands, I think, would be behind the CHP words which help remind us to appreci- of the cross in the work we do. Happy heavily rejected by the Conservative Party, Harry DeBoer ate that we are fortunate to be God’s Thanksgiving, everyone. and the ejection of the one who would Wyoming, Ont.

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Alex Schadenberg, Paul Tuns (chair) Bulk subscriptions: Bruna Bellomo Subscriptions: $49/year in Canada $55 (C$) in U.S.A./International ISSN 8824-5401 THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 — PAGE 5 Gender-identity wars The Holy Spectre natural death. “Sex is not and cannot be ‘assigned at birth,’” haunting the McHugh emphasized. “The language of ‘assigned at National Affairs birth’ is purposefully misleading and would be identical movement to an assertion that blood type is assigned at birth.” Rory Leishman In contrast, gender identity is not innate, fixed or binary. What, then, should a mother do if her son comes home from school and announces that he feels like a little girl trapped in a boy’s body? Talk Turkey or the past three years, every federal and provincial Many physicians would counsel the mother to start Fjurisdiction in Canada has prohibited discrimination dressing and treating her son like a girl. McHugh Josie Luetke on the basis of gender identity, yet none of our legisla- emphatically disagrees. In his Court testimony, he points tors, lawyers and judges can have any clear idea about out that by treating her son as a girl and fostering his precisely what this wide-ranging legislation entails. gender delusion, the mother increases the risk that the In an attempt to clear up the confusion, the Ontario boy will eventually undergo dangerous, cross-sex hor- hortly after I became involved in the pro-life move- Human Rights Commission has issued a policy state- mone treatments and sex-reassignment surgery that will Sment, I became cognizant of the push by mostly ment on “preventing discrimination because of gender leave him permanently sterile and grievously mutilated. younger members to secularize its branding, even identity and gender expression,” which defines gender That is fine with trans activists and their medical though we were all Christian. Green as I was and enam- identity as “a person’s sense of being a woman, a man, supporters. They maintain that hormone therapy and ored with the clarity of the science of when life begins both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.” sex-reassignment surgery (otherwise known as gender- and the simplicity of the philosophical arguments against The statement also stipulates that trans people whose affirming surgery) are effective in alleviating gender dys- abortion, I was sympathetic. “gender identity or gender expression is different from phoria. Pro-life could be hip. If our movement didn’t seem their birth-assigned sex” must be “recognized and treat- However, as McHugh points out, there is no com- religious and exclusive, more people would be attracted ed as the gender they live in, whether or not they have pelling medical evidence to support such claims. In an to it, or at least listen long enough to be relieved of their undergone surgery.” article published last year in the American Journal of ignorance; implicitly, we saw that as the greatest obstacle For greater clarity, the document specifically states: Psychiatry, John E. Pachankis, director of the LGBTQ to our success -- not evil. “Trans people should have access to washrooms, change Mental Health Initiative at Yale University School For a while now, I’ve appreciated that was the wrong rooms and other gender specific services and facilities of Medicine, and Richard Bränström, a transgender thinking, but interestingly, seemingly so have many based on their lived gender identity.” researcher in Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, frankly former proponents of dechristianizing our image. On this basis, it is clear that a biological male who acknowledged: “Despite professional recommendations Consciously or not, I know quite a few people who have identifies as a trans woman, is entitled to use the girl’s to consider gender-affirming hormone and surgical been renewing an emphasis on prayer in pro-life work. washroom in a high school or any other public facility, interventions for transgender individuals experiencing I guess we’ve realized that to spend any length of time even if he has not been subjected to any hormonal or gender incongruence, the long-term effect of such inter- in this battle you unavoidably need to surrender to God. surgical treatments. What, though, about a trans person ventions on mental health is largely unknown.” Who would have thought? with one of the more ambiguous gender identities rec- To cast more light on this issue, Pachankis and During the last of CLC Youth’s Virtual Pro-Life Club ognized by the Commission, such as a biological male Bränström studied the extensive experience in Sweden meetings over the summer, our club members indulged with a sense of being both a man and a woman? Which with gender-affirming surgeries and came to the conclu- in imagining what a pro-life future would look like, post- washroom, male or female, is he/she entitled to use? sion that these surgeries had reduced the likelihood that criminalization of abortion. The emerging consensus was The Commission does not address such conundrums. patients would need additional mental health treatment not just that Christianization entails building a Culture Note that the Commission refers to a person’s “birth- to an extent that “lends support to the decision to pro- of Life, but that a pro-life world is necessarily a Christian assigned sex.” Some physicians have also taken to using vide gender-affirming surgeries to transgender individu- one. Only Jesus offers the compassion, radical mercy, and this term. In a recent article in the Canadian Medical als who seek them.” hope for redeeming suffering that those in a crisis preg- Association Journal, Andrew Pinto, assistant professor While transgender activists hailed this sensational nancy or the hundreds of millions who would be healing of Medicine at the University of Toronto and staff physi- conclusion, McHugh and several other authorities took from abortion would require. cian at St. Michael’s Hospital, stated that a “person’s a closer look at the authors’ paper and subjected it to That said, while the prerequisite Christian evangelism gender identity may be the same as or different from devastating methodological criticism. As a result, on can be overt or explicit (as it is with 40 Days for Life and their sex assigned at birth.” August 1, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a Life Chain), it need not always be. After all, by simply lov- What exactly is the meaning of “sex-assigned at birth”? “correction,” which disclosed that upon re-examination ing our neighbour, we’re helping to introduce them to Can a newborn have a different sex at birth from what of the Swedish data, Bränström and Pachankis have now God (for God is Love). he or she had at six months in the womb? Or can a per- concluded that they “demonstrated no advantage of When conducting pro-life activism, the message, son’s sex change at ages one, ten, or 20 years after birth? (“gender-affirming”) surgery in relation to subsequent “Every human being is deserving of human rights” will Dr. Paul McHugh, University Distinguished Service mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits reach an audience that “Every human being is made in Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide the image and likeness of God” won’t. The latter is the School of Medicine, has addressed this issue in his attempts.” reason for the former, but understanding that relation- recent submission to the Supreme Court of the United Given the lack of evidence of any benefit to trans ship is not essential for believing that abortion is wrong, States in the Bostock case on transgender discrimina- persons from social conditioning, cross-gender hor- as nonreligious people can hold human rights as a first tion. “Sex is innate, fixed, and binary,” McHugh testified. mones and surgical treatments, why do these practices principle. (Though, admittedly, without referencing an Except in rare intersex anomalies, a human being is have such ardent support from the American Medical absolute moral authority, they would not be able to rebut biologically either a male or female from fertilization to See ‘When‘ Page 7 a moral relativist who rejects human rights. Thankfully, committed moral relativists are still rare today.) Moreover, this relationship between the inherent value of every human and our Maker does quickly The Move. Deadlines. Our Website become apparent to an individual when immersed in the I thought it would be. I am not a fan of the open concept pro-life movement; significant numbers of formerly pro- office. (I cannot find the essay I read online about open choice atheists have become Christians as a result of real- concept offices being a form of communism, but that bit of izing the fuller Truth of the sanctity of human life. Such writing no doubt influenced me.) progression is natural -- to move deeper and explore the But our new offices are a good place for the camaraderie reasons for one’s beliefs -- and, of course, to consider that should accompany any workplace. But in this month more seriously the faith of allies one is coming to also of October, I am thankful that The Interim-Campaign Life befriend. Coalition family found a workable solution to losing our Basically, the pro-life movement is your gateway drug home for the past two decades, and as one of my colleagues to Christianity. says, we are getting twice the space for half the cost, which In any case, even if some settings or contexts demand is a bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one considering nuance and prudence (e.g. not broaching the topic of the relative rents in Hogtown and Steel City. religion in a conversation with a pro-choicer unless they do so first), our identities and consequent aim to evange- ** lize should not be hidden. (Obscuring an intent to evan- gelize contradicts evangelism.) One of the advantages of the monthly newspaper format Concerned about the handful of people who might is that we have the time to sit back and think about what we take offense, I recall (alongside others) questioning the few months ago, I informed readers that The Interim are going to say about events. We do not have to have instant place of prayer at the National March for Life, which is Aoffices were moving from Toronto to Hamilton. While hot takes. We can be much more sober-minded. One of the so silly in hindsight. Virtually every pro-life group centers some of my colleagues at Campaign Life Coalition still come disadvantages is that important news will occur and by the prayer in their ministry – why wouldn’t we pray when into the Hamilton office regularly, some are working at time we cover it, our reporting or analysis is “old news.” I once a year we all gather together in Canada’s capital, home either part- or full-time. I fall into the former category, wrote this From the Editor’s Desk column before the Speech lamenting the lives lost since 1969? taking the GO bus twice a week, nearly two hours each way. from the Throne was delivered; we go to press the day after, Avoiding collective prayer—our lifeblood—is hiding. Jim Hughes, president emeritus of CLC and the founding not knowing whether an election would be triggered by the While we happily welcome and should make efforts to editor of this paper, works from home. It is a bit of a culture- opposition parties voting against the Throne Speech. include atheists, agnostics, and those of other faith back- shock to all of us, but we are getting used to it. We had the cover designed and lead editorial ready. And grounds in our pro-life circles, they shouldn’t be both- I have used my commutes to sleep in the mornings and then it looked like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might ered by the Christian character of our movement, though read or write in the afternoons, or vice versa, depending on call an election hours after the Governor General read the they might disagree. what I needed to accomplish and when. The real sacrifice Speech from the Throne. We had some decisions to make So as your right-to-life group undergoes a youthful is made by my family, especially Mrs. Tuns, who had grown and decided to stay with the American election cover for the rebranding, perhaps moves offices, don’t feel the need to accustomed to me working from home during the pan- simple reason that south of the border, the political moment strip it of religious symbolism and sanitize it of religious demic and enjoys beating me either before work or at lunch offers a stark choice between an incumbent President com- slogans. Don’t stow away the crucifixes. Keep on employ- in a board game or game of cards. Now, there is not time mitted to protecting the preborn and a Democratic challeng- ing the trusty closing salutation of “God bless.” before getting the kids ready before school and me off to er committed to eliminating any and every restriction on the If you were oblivious to there ever being a debate the bus by 7 am. By the time I get back home in the evening, abortion license. Trudeau did not call an election, although on how interconnected the pro-life movement and the it is time for dinner. None of this is a complaint, just a new as we go to press, it is possible that there might still be one. Christian Church should seem, please carry on. I apolo- dynamic for our family. I am not naturally inclined toward The news does pay much attention to our deadlines. I gize for what must strike you as a painfully obvious and seeing the glass is half-full, but I am thankful for the months remember back in 2002 when Jean Chretien announced he unnecessary column. But if you were ever or are appre- we got to spend more time together. would retire. The news broke literally within minutes we hensive that the rosary-clutching caricature of a pro-lifer I am not someone who likes change (hence, my con- were scheduled to send the paper to the printer. We cut a is hindering our effectiveness, have a little faith. It’s not servative political orientation), so I was not prepared to picture and a paragraph from another story and added a going to be an overreliance on God which costs us our “like” our new office in Hamilton. It hasn’t been as bad as See ‘Prayers‘ p. 11 victory. PAGE 6 — THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020

attacked them.” dogs. They comply with regulations the authorities Rex, of course, is Latin for king. Fernsby says the impose for the dogs’ safety and comfort.” Top dog title suits him. He lives like a king, while his people live He noted that in some parts of the world, cows are like subjects, and he looks like a king. That is to say, he considered sacred and untouchable. “In our part of the looks arrogant and insolent, especially when his sub- world,” he said, “dogs are approaching that coveted jects enthrone him in the back seat of their aging con- state. Rex is leading the way. Some nights when I can’t vertible and parade him around town. sleep because of his barking, I hope that before they Light is Right “Although His Highness doesn’t deign to visit me,” sanctify him he takes a bite out of a passerby and has to Fernby said, “I’m convinced that he surreptitiously visits be put down. I’m desperate enough to volunteer as the Joe Campbell my property. The fecal evidence on my driveway is com- passerby.” pelling. In winter, so is the gilding on the snow bank in When feeling less vindictive, Fernsby takes comfort my front yard. When I take this up with him, he sniffs in the thought that dogs have a relatively short life span indignantly and trots off. It’s as if I were questioning a and with any luck Rex will go before he does. royal prerogative.” “Although I don’t attend canine funerals,” he said, “I y friend Fernsby has new neighbours, a dog and his Fernsby doesn’t know what breed of dog Rex is. would happily make an exception for Rex. I wouldn’t go Mpeople. Several months ago, they moved into the “When I ask his people,” he said, “they change the alone, though. I’d take along two strong companions to house next door to his. The people, a married couple subject. They no doubt suspect that I’m prejudiced prevent me from gilding his grave. without children, rise early and set off for separate jobs against certain breeds and they want to shield him from to earn money to support the dog. Some days the dog discrimination. But they completely misjudge me. I’m sleeps in. Other days he lounges around the back yard, not prejudiced against certain breeds. I’m prejudiced Unpopular views eating, drinking, urinating and defecating. When the against all dogs.” people return home, they clean up after him and serve Rex was adopted as a puppy from an animal shelter. him more food and drink, with predictable results. They Someone from the shelter stops by periodically to see protected by Charter also regularly bathe him, clean his teeth and manicure how he is doing. No one stops by to see how his people Continued from p. 3 Calgary:” it is part of a larg- his nails, and from time to time they chauffeur him are doing. Bio-Ethical Reform, told the er pattern of “disdain and across town for hairdos and veterinary medical check- “When he’s allowed a run in the park,” Fernsby said, committee that the restric- hatred for Christians” and ups. “he sometimes takes off for a night on the town and tion would limit signs to the “entrenched Marxist Fernsby says the dog is in great shape. His people, breaks several municipal bylaws. The authorities fine his smaller than a pamphlet. and Humanist identity though, are overextended, over worked and overdrawn people. Rex gets off without as much as a reprimand.” He also said his organiza- ideology that has overrun at the bank. When they take the dog for his daily walk, He told me that one of his people injured a knee tion, which uses abortion- the city.” He cited as evi- they can barely keep up with him. while trying to discourage the dog from leaving the victim photography to dence the fact a pastor was They call him Rex. He calls them whenever he’s hun- park. show what abortion is, fined for feeding homeless gry, thirsty, bored, or frustrated. He seems to get that “She’s been on a waiting list for surgery for the last focus their presentations to Calgarians during the pan- way late at night and early in the morning. several weeks. Rex hurt his foot the other morning and one location so students demic while police turned Fernsby says they wanted a watchdog and they cer- was operated on that afternoon. Of course, his people can avoid it if they want a blind eye to Black Lives tainly got their wish. “He’s very good at watching,” my had to pay for the surgery he got. The surgery they can’t to. “A 150 metre safe zone Matter protesters in viola- friend told me. “He’s so good at it that when strang- get is free. around the entire school tion of physical distancing ers approach him they don’t even know he’s doing it. “But what can you expect of a society in which ani- property — not simply a rules. They think he’s asleep. Shortly after he and his people mals have rights and their people have duties?” he main exit, not simply all John Carpay, president moved here someone tried to break into their house. asked. “Although we call the people ‘masters’, they look of the exits but the entire of the Justice Center for He watched the whole thing. When a couple of the like servants to me. The dogs go to obedience school; property — will effective- Constitutional Freedoms, other neighbours intervened to prevent the crime, Rex it’s the people who obey. Not only do they obey their ly completely nullify any told The Interim, that opportunity our team has “The Charter protects the to engage students in these expression of minority conversations,” Cote told beliefs and opinions that Canadian university offers the committee. He said the the majority regards as proposed bylaw does not offensive, hurtful, wrong or balance people’s rights as false.” He added, “If the course normalizing abortion it effectively disallows pro- expression of unpopular life demonstrations near views can be restricted in Interim Staff Paynter was previously al and institutional contexts dents: “Paynter could con- schools. a public place like a public involved in introducing of reproductive control and ceivably equip them with Jeremy Williamson, an sidewalk, then Charter pro- Dalhousie University in abortion training as part their effects on people seek- the connections and moti- Alberta-based independent tection for free expression Halifax is now offering a of a nursing undergradu- ing care from health care vation to get more involved consultant to Campaign is rendered worthless and course to its health students ate course. “This is a great professionals,” and to have in abortion advocacy and Life Coalition, told The meaningless.” in an effort to make abor- expansion of that attention improved “consciousness provision.” Interim that Calgary city Carpay said the “Charter tion “normal” in healthcare that Dalhousie Health has regarding politicized action Robert said that while council “has become provides no ‘right’ to not practices and society. made to the importance that can be taken to coun- it is possible that the increasingly tyrannical and see or hear expression that The course, of educating our future ter the personal, cultural course will be taught with- self righteous in their gov- one might find offensive or “Interprofessional Care health-care practitioners and institutional contexts out being propagandistic, ernance.” He said the bylaw hurtful,” so there is “no of Surgical and Medical about abortion care,” said of reproductive control.” that is would likely be a is “likely the direct result ‘balancing’ required in this Abortion Patients,” is offi- Paynter. Ruth Robert of Campaign “generous interpretation” of a scuffle over graphic situation, as there are no cially a “mini-course,” con- She said that health care Life Coalition and a stu- although she admits the pro-life signs outside the competing Charter Rights sisting of four 90-minute professionals unwilling to dent at Dalhousie told The course sounds like it could Queen Elizabeth School in or Freedoms.” sessions. do abortions should still Interim, “I don’t really be interesting. Robert said, The school’s course understand the proce- think the course is neces- “In addition to abortion guide says, “This mini history and current access, course will help provide they are talking about students with information awareness of how personal on the history of abortion in beliefs may impact profes- Canada and current access sional roles. If that’s the to abortion.” Furthermore, case, they could use abor- “The course will focus on tion as a case study.” But, recent changes in Atlantic Robert emphasizes, “I imag- Canada including the ine that (abortion) will be removal of the Therapeutic promoted.” Abortion Committee in NB Robert said Paynter is in 2014; the creation of the a well-known pro-abor- abortion clinic in PEI in tion activist who supports 2017; and the removal of “reproductive justice,” so referral requirement and there is “reason to believe introduction of centralized Dalhousie University in Halifax will begin offering a (the course) is propagan- intake in NS in 2018.” It will mini-course this fall to undergraduate health students da.” Luetke said, “Paynter also explain that “medical on the history of abortion in Canada. is quite transparent about abortions” -- that is, abor- not approaching the sub- tifacient drugs -- have been dure and claims they must sary. I can’t imagine what ject from a neutral position, permitted since 2015 and be able to facilitate abor- they are going to teach but I would welcome her to that nurse practitioners can tions by referring pregnant about abortion history and prove me wrong.” One way prescribe them. women to someone who access that wouldn’t be to do that, said Luetke, is to Marthy Paynter, who will do that abortion. common knowledge for invite pro-life speakers, like leads the course, told the LifeSiteNews report- anyone inclined to learn.” Ruth Robert. CBC, “Despite abortion ed that the Dalhousie Josie Luetke, head of Luetke said pro-life having been decriminalized University course wants Campaign Life Coalition students at Dalhousie in Canada since 1988, the students to have “reflected Youth, was more direct. “In “should write letters and remaining barriers to access upon their beliefs, values the eyes of pro-lifers, obvi- use social media and other are of course geography … and assumptions relative to ously this course isn’t tools to call attention to but also the willingness of contraception, reproduc- necessary,” she told The how shameful it is for their providers to step up and tive autonomy and abor- Interim. “It isn’t necessary university to be teaching provide this care.” She said, tion, and learned the rel- to learn how to kill preborn kids how to kill innocent “If we’re going to address evance of this reflection babies and it isn’t neces- human beings.” She said that barrier we have to train on their professional role sary to get a biased take they should also have con- the providers, and when of support with people on the history of ‘abortion versations with their peers you realize how normal who have experienced care’ in Canada. For pro- so they “hear the pro-life something is, how safe, unplanned pregnancy and abortion students, how- argument.” how common, that helps reproductive coercion.” ever, Luetke understands Robert adds that alumni you adopt it into your prac- The course is also asking why the pro-abortion can withhold donations to tice and feel comfortable students to better under- movement wants to make the school “as long as it with this care provision.” stand “the personal, cultur- this course available to stu- promotes such a course.” THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 — PAGE 7 When will transgender Will the truth set us free? end up claiming as many lives as the Hong Kong flu, but the world population is now 7.8 billion, and 58 million madness stop? people die each year. Continued from p. 5 In other words, the Spanish flu killed between 0.01 Association, the American Psychiatric Association and and 0.025 per cent of the global population; the 1957 their Canadian counterparts? Law Matters pandemic killed 0.0007 per cent; the 1968 pandemic McHugh explains: “Unfortunately, ideology rather killed 0.0003 per cent; COVID-19 has killed 0.0001 per than science is driving the support.” Not so long ago, it John Carpay cent, or 1 per cent of 1 per cent. When viewed properly was likewise ideology rather than science that prompted in historical context, the COVID-19 death toll is much psychiatrists to embrace the recovered memory syn- closer to that of an annual flu than to any pandemic in drome, a now discredited theory that caused many inno- the past century. cent people to end up in jail. Further, we know that COVID-19 deaths are over- In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association reported, based on what public health officials in many resolved under pressure from transgender activists to he lockdowns have now become a permanent viola- jurisdictions have publicly stated: anyone who dies with replace “gender identity disorder” in the Diagnostic & Ttion of our Charter Rights and Freedom to move, the virus in their body is deemed to have died of the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders with “gender travel, assemble, associate, and worship. Governments virus. dysphoria.” As a result, most psychiatrists will now no are showing no intentions of removing restrictions, even “COVID-19 threatens everyone,” is another powerful longer treat a patient for a gender disorder unless the as COVID-19 deaths slow to a trickle, and are now prov- falsehood. Data published by governments around the patient is distressed by the incongruity between the real- en to be a small fraction of the dire predictions made by world show that COVID-19 threatens elderly people who ity of his biological sex and the delusion of his gender politicians in March. are already very sick. A few minutes spent on any govern- identity. Masks have become mandatory for children to attend ment website will quickly point to the fact that COVID- Regardless, is there any approach to treating trans school, for people to fly on airplanes, and (in many cit- 19 poses virtually no threat to children, youth, or healthy children that has proven effective? Indeed, there is. ies) even to shop for essentials or attend church. People adults under 60. McHugh reports that “when treatment is focused on cannot enjoy being part of a choir, or even sing in their “It’s not about you; it’s about protecting grandma” helping patients align their subjective gender identity own house of worship. Many restaurants and other busi- is an emotionally powerful slogan that drives support with their objective biological sex by use of normal nesses will go bankrupt due to social distancing require- for lockdowns. We can protect grandma with better counseling methods such as talk therapy, gender dys- ments which force them to operate at partial capacity. standards and practices in nursing homes, without need- phoria has proven to be significantly reduced.” Bankrupt businesses and unemployed workers no longer ing to place millions of healthy Canadians under house As evidence, McHugh cites the success of Dr. Kenneth pay taxes, which will severely reduce funding for the arrest, closing schools and houses of worship, destroy- Zucker in treating trans children. Given the malleability salaries of doctors, nurses, teachers, policemen, social ing livelihoods, and driving people into unemployment, of gender identity in children, Zucker maintains that in workers and firefighters. Many charities have been crip- depression, anxiety, alcoholism, family violence, despair most cases, it is best for parents and others to help trans pled financially, no longer able to help the most needy and suicide. youngsters to “feel comfortable in their own bodies.” and vulnerable among us. Citizens can no longer gather “The lockdowns have saved many lives,” is neither In an article in the peer-reviewed journal freely for social, political, religious, recreational, or cul- true nor false, but speculation. There is no convincing Developmental Psychology, researchers report that a tural purposes (unless it’s to protest racism, in which evidence to support it. Looking at countries around systematic follow-up study of 25 girls treated by Zucker case the supposedly “life-saving” lockdown measures the world, and individual U.S. states, we see locked- at the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic in don’t seem to apply). down jurisdictions with high COVID-19 death rates, Toronto found that only three (12 per cent) were trou- Originally imposed to “flatten the curve” and pre- and locked-down jurisdictions with lower death rates. bled by gender dysphoria as adults. vent hospitals from being overwhelmed with COVID- We also see states that rejected lockdowns, some with Regardless, trans activists have denounced Zucker as 19 patients (who did not arrive in large numbers), higher death rates and others with lower ones. Locking a transphobe for failing to encourage trans children to lockdown measures now remain in place because of up healthy people for months on end is a large-scale maintain their gender delusions. And in 2015, trans zeal- unfounded fear. political experiment, never tried before in human his- ots also managed to browbeat the supine directors of If we Canadians want to regain our freedom and tory. Let’s not confuse speculation with fact. the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto reclaim our human dignity, we must free ourselves from “The lockdowns are just an inconvenience.” The car- into firing Zucker as head of its gender identity clinic false information that sustains Charter-violating lock- diac patients who died because their heart surgery was and shutting the facility down. down measures, some examples of which are debunked cancelled did not merely suffer inconvenience; the same Still, Zucker maintains his status as a professor of below. goes for Canadians whose cancer went undiagnosed. psychiatry at the University of Toronto and continues to “COVID-19 is an unusually deadly killer,” is the most For many Canadians, their business is not just their treat gender dysphoria in children at a clinic in down- powerful falsehood, driving the entire agenda. However, livelihood, but also their life’s savings. When lockdown town Toronto. Nonetheless, concerned parents of trans the World Health Organization informs us that “an influ- measures kill or cripple a business, it means not only children should beware: On March 19, federal Justice enza pandemic is a rare but recurrent event.” The 1918- unemployment for owners, managers and workers, but Minister David Lametti introduced a bill into Parliament 20 Spanish flu killed an estimated 20-50 million people also the wiping out of decades of hard work. to criminalize so-called conversion therapy. worldwide, when the world population was just under Will the truth set us free? That’s up to Canadians. Let’s Under terms of this pernicious legislation, any parent two billion. The 1957 “Asian flu” killed two million, spread the truth. who causes a minor child to undergo conversion thera- when the world population was 2.9 billion. The 1968 py that “seeks to change an individual’s gender identity “Hong Kong flu” killed one million, when the world Lawyer John Carpay is president of the Justice Centre to match the sex they were assigned at birth” will have population was 3.6 billion. COVID-19 may or may not for Constitutional Freedoms (jccf.ca) committed a criminal offence punishable by up to five years imprisonment. When will this madness end?

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PAGE 8 — THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 U.S. election offers stark choice on abortion Oswald Clark Supreme Court judge last for Life, and Austin Ruse $60 million. Health and use his bully pulpit to call past support for the Hyde and Paul Tuns month, will torque the of the Catholic Family and Human Services terminat- for more abortion access. amendment. Most impor- Analysis politicization of the Court Human Rights Institute, ed a contract with Advance Long gone are the days tantly and urgently, he and force the issue to the among others. Bioscience Resources when then-candidate Bill vowed to only appoint pro- The U.S. election is about center of the campaign. Biden at one time had to procure fetal tissue Clinton talked about want- Roe judges to the Supreme many issues including the This election is likely to be a mixed voting record from abortion babies for ing abortion to be “safe, Court. He has tweeted that fitness of the two major decided by whether voters on abortion as a senator research purposes. The legal, and rare.” Indeed, as president he would have candidates to lead and the want a Supreme Court that and Donald Trump once HHS also ceased harass- the 2020 Democratic plat- the responsibility to “pro- president’s handling of the will restrain or promote declared himself “total- ing groups with moral form excised that language. tect a woman’s constitu- pandemic and the econ- the abortion license. For ly pro-choice” (in 1999) or religious objections Biden, like his party, is all- tional right to choose.” omy. A major difference the first time, there is the and donated to Planned to providing abortion in on abortion. Biden chose a running between the parties and possibility that Roe v. Wade Parenthood Federation of drugs or contraception in David Closson, direc- mate who is also avowed- presidential candidates is could be overturned. America. But times have their employee benefits. tor of Christian Ethics ly pro-abortion, Senator their approach to abortion, Whatever might be said changed. Biden has been Furthermore, the HHS and Biblical Worldview at Kamala Harris. She has a which would have been of many other issues, how- moving steadily away from began enforcing at least 25 Family Research Council, lifetime 100 per cent rating important to many voters ever, Biden’s reputation the pro-life positions he existing federal laws pro- has observed that “as from NARAL Pro-Choice but will have a higher pro- as a moderate on abor- once supported and as tecting conscience rights Biden’s national profile America and a zero rating file and could become the tion does not stand up to president Trump has had a for health care workers or grew, he increasingly voted from the National Right to issue of the 2020 election, scrutiny, and on this most stellar record in opposition organizations opposed to against pro-life legislation.” Life Committee. Trump’s argued through the proxy vital of issues, the differ- to abortion. anti-life measures. The national profile includ- running mate, Mike Pence, battle over the future of the ences between the two The Democrats, over- Biden and the ed becoming the senior has been a pro-life stalwart Supreme Court. There are main contenders for the all, are pursuing a poli- Democrats are calling for senator from Delaware, as Congressman, gover- some political observers presidency could not be cy of unfettered abortion fetal research limits to chair of the Senate judicia- nor of Indiana, and as vice who believe the 2016 elec- clearer. Biden is running on demand that would be rescinded, conscience ry committee, and Obama’s president. tion was decided in Donald on the most pro-abortion remove of any limits on rights to be stripped from running mate and vice The official Biden-Harris Trump’s favour because platform either major party abortion, force taxpayers all programs, and that president. As he ran for website states Biden “sup- one of the most important has ever offered and leads to foot the bill for abortion, Washington fund abor- the Democrat nomination ports repealing the Hyde issues that year was the a Democratic Party that codify Roe v. Wade with a Amendment because health Supreme Court following opposes any restrictions law establishing abortion care is a right that should the open seat left by the on the practice. Trump has as a right. Yet, the party, not be dependent on one’s passing of Justice Antonin been called the “most pro- despite the repeated utter- zip code or income.” It also Scalia in February of that life president in history” by ances of their top repre- states a Biden administra- year. The passing of Justice Marjorie Dannenfelser of sentatives that their party tion will do “everything in Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Susan B. Anthony List, is committed to expanding its power” to fight state a feminist pro-abortion Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests abortion access, only made laws that protect the pre- four references to abortion born. The website lists or Planned Parenthood state-level pro-life laws they during their August oppose, including parental Democratic National notification requirements, Convention although informed consent, and one was by Biden’s run- mandatory waiting peri- ning mate, Senator Kamala ods. NARAL and Planned Harris. Joe Biden vows to rescind Donald Trump has been Parenthood have both Republicans, on the endorsed Biden, with PP all pro-life gains made called the “most pro-life other hand, touted their pledging to spend $45 mil- support for the pro-life under Trump. president in history.” lion to defeat Trump. cause, with Trump declar- tion and contraception, beginning in 2019, Biden Democrats control the ing: “Joe Biden claims he through various programs. tacked left on abortion. House of Representatives has empathy for the vul- The Trump adminis- Biden was elected to and according to Real Clear nerable -- yet the party he tration has been outspo- the Senate months before Politics, is likely to gain leads supports the extreme ken at the United Nations the Supreme Court decid- control of the Senate. If the late-term abortion of that women’s health ed Roe v. Wade in January Democrats control both defenseless babies right up never includes abortion 1973. He said the Court house of Congress and the to the moment of birth. and resisted all efforts to went too far in its deci- White House there will be Democrat politicians refuse declare sexual and repro- sion, implying he would no impediment to imple- to protect innocent life, ductive health a human have supported some pro- menting their pro-abortion and then they lecture us right. Numerous times, vision for legal abortion. agenda. Speaker Pelosi has about morality and saving Trump administration offi- Biden, who often wears said the budget next year America’s soul? Tonight, cials have made speeches his Catholic faith on his will not include the Hyde we proudly declare that all and released statements, sleeve, voted in 1982 for Amendment. children, born and unborn, often joined by other coun- an amendment that would But in no “policy” area have a God-given right to tries, condemning the UN’s allow states to overturn is there a bigger gap than life.” promotion of abortion, Roe. But, one year later, on the appointment of When it comes to abor- most recently this past Biden voted against a judges. Trump has repeat- tion, on policy after policy, spring when the organiza- proposed constitutional edly said he favours judges Biden and Trump take dia- tion insisted that abortion amendment banning abor- who would overturn Roe metrically opposed views. was part of its COVID-19 tion and in 1986 voted for v. Wade, wants judges who In the first week of his response. an amendment to an appro- affirm an originalist judicial presidency, Trump reinstat- Biden has promised to priations bill that made it philosophy that applies the ed the Mexico City policy rescind the Mexico City easier for Washington D.C. written law rather than leg- which blocks funding for policy “on day one” and to fund abortions in the islates from the bench, and international non-govern- his administration would capital city. From 1995 to that would permit state mental organizations that back the UN’s pro-abortion 2003, Biden voted for sev- restrictions on abortion. carry out or promote abor- agenda. eral pro-life bills, includ- Both justices appointed by tion. In fact, he expanded Trump has used the bully ing the partial-birth abor- Trump, Neil Gorsuch and the limitations compared pulpit of the White House tion ban five times. He Brent Kavanaugh, voted to previous incarnations of to promote life. He has chal- was also a reliable vote to uphold a Louisiana that executive order that lenged Congress to defund for the Hyde Amendment law requiring abortionists were signed by presidents Planned Parenthood and prohibiting federal funds to have admitting privi- Ronald Reagan, George threatened to veto any for abortion. Yet, in 2000, leges to nearby hospitals. H.W. Bush, and George W. attempt to weaken current he voted for an amend- Conservative court-watch- Bush. Biden, on the other pro-life laws. In the 2019 ment to the Partial-Birth ers have praised the more hand, promises to rescind State of the Union address Abortion Ban Act (2000) than 200 judges Trump has the Mexico City policy, he called for new legisla- that affirmed “the sense appointed to the federal just as his Democrat pre- tion to ban abortion once of Congress in support of bench. Biden is committed decessors Bill Clinton and the preborn child can feel the Supreme Court’s deci- to appointing judges that Barack Obama did once pain (about 20 weeks). sion in Roe v. Wade.” And support Roe and oppose they reached the Oval “Let us work together to he also received a perfect state restrictions on abor- Office. build a culture that cher- score from NARAL Pro- tion. The Trump adminis- ishes innocent life. And let Choice America in 2001, Closson said “after eval- tration has brought in us reaffirm a fundamental 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, uating the 2020 presiden- regulations limiting fetal truth: all children—born and 2008, before leav- tial candidates’ respective research, protecting con- and unborn—are made in ing the Senate as Barack convictions, policy posi- science, and defunding the holy image of God.” Obama’s vice president. tions, and the two major abortion and contracep- He called for a late-term Biden lurched to an party platforms, it is clear tion. Last year, the Trump abortion ban in his 2020 explicitly pro-abortion that Trump and Biden— administration ceased Title State of the Union address. position during his cam- and the political parties X family planning fund- In January, he became the paign to become the they represent—have ing for any organization first sitting president to Democrat presidential can- diverging understandings that commits or makes appear in person at the didate over the past year. of women’s health and the referrals for abortion. As annual March for Life in Biden has vowed to codify unborn, and are working a result of this change, the nation’s capital. Roe v. Wade into law by to advance two very dif- Planned Parenthood with- Needless to say, Biden signing an act explicitly rec- ferent agendas.” For pro- RealClearPolitics, Sept. 21, 2020 drew from the program, would not do any of these ognizing “a right to abor- life Americans, the choice Gallup, May 2020 saving American taxpayers and would quite possibly tion” and repudiated his could not be clearer. THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 — PAGE 9 PAGE 10 — THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 Canada’s China-like Cultural Revolution?

before the turn of the millennium, have conspired to cre- tainty that your work and reputation will be at the mercy ate a perfect storm that’s made artistic livelihoods more of people you do not respect, like or know. precarious than ever. While nowhere near as vicious or catastrophic – but Early on in his book, Timberg states that the erosion of once again, the year’s not over yet – this moment has Amusements the middle class and of middlebrow culture – both huge a more than faint echo of China’s Cultural Revolution, Rick McGinnis factors in the creation of bohemia and the careers of its where the frustrated energy of a vast youthful demograph- denizens, however much they might make a show of hold- ic was unleashed on an older generation by cynical politi- ing that bourgeoisie in contempt – has been disastrous for cians eager to obscure their failures. artists and the arts. The online world and a concentration In an essay titled The Structure of Cultural Revolutions, of wealth at the top of both the creative class and society published in July in the online Areo Magazine, Quebec hile our collective anxiety was being ramped up as a whole has doomed the network of bookshops and law clerk Clovis Roussy states that “a cultural revolution Wamidst stories of plague and rioting, 2020 reached record stores, small magazines, newspaper and advertis- does not occur spontaneously. It starts when part of the deep into its awful cornucopia this summer with a reprise ing industry gigs, art galleries, clubs, cafes and restaurants population – usually young intellectuals – develops an of cancel culture. That apparently ceaseless turkey shoot, to near-extinction, and with it the support network for abstract understanding of some systemic threat.” insuring that anyone employed in politics, the arts, aca- struggling creatives, almost inevitably in the cities, striving Belief in the urgent need to defeat that threat becomes demia, journalism and science – so far agriculture, fish- to create work and reputation. paramount, and needs to be pursued at any cost. eries and forestry seem immune, but the year isn’t over It’s unlikely that artists, individually or as a class, could Accusations become imperative to the ideological battle, yet – should stay awake at night, worrying that a youthful have resisted powerful economic and technological trends and no protestation of innocence can be allowed to stand tweet or a once-uncontroversial opinion might deprive that have also decimated manufacturing. But in a chap- at face value. them of friends, platform and livelihood. ter titled “Self-Inflicted Wounds,” Timberg says that the “The game is endless,” Roussy writes. “Whatever the It was during this resurgence of outrage that writer modernist revolution of the postwar years, which became topic, there’s always something to be said about how Hal Niedzviecki decided to speak up and tempt the guard structuralist, post-structuralist and then post-modern in ideas have been tainted by injustice and exclusion. They tower spotlight to fall on him again. Niedzviecki had succession with each decade, was embraced by artists, will keep retreating to meta-discussions, without ever get- his moment of infamy three years ago, when an article often during impressionable years of youth and school, to ting to grips with the object of the discussion itself, or try- he wrote in a small magazine published by the Writer’s their ultimate detriment. ing to harmonize their objections with substantive views Union of Canada saw him accused of belittling the then- Powerful work was produced in painting, film, music about the topic at hand. Pretense to objectivity and truth critical concept of “cultural appropriation.” His remark, and architecture, but “the net effect of this revolution was can be taken as a sinister strategy intended to ensure the worrying that zealous attacks on writers and artists cre- to destroy the middlebrow consensus ,” Timberg writes, domination of one identity group over another, by imbu- atively straying from their identity lanes would ultimately “the sense that there was a shared body of artistic and ing its ideas with an air of authority.” Roussy concludes: “curtail debate and homogenize opinion,” led to a cam- intellectual touchstones that educated middle-class people “It is a dark, scary and depressing vision of the world: a paign that painted him as a racist. should know about, that ‘serious’ fare was somehow good world where knowledge is not possible.” What began online turned into stories in the arts sec- for you, and that these works were to be passed down It’s not surprising that the lockdown, which sped up tion of major newspapers. The result was depressingly through education, journalistic coverage, and family ritu- the decimation of the network of gigs and venues Scott inevitable. “Suddenly I no longer received invitations to als.” Timberg eulogized in Culture Crash, would also turn up write articles, speak, teach or publish. I’d been cancelled, And so who creates the art and how they identify the intensity of cancel culture in the arts. Even with so and barely anyone said a public word in my defence. My (whether or not they’re telling the truth) is as important, little to fight for, the stakes have become higher than ever. 25 years of work supporting independent voices in the if not more so, than the work they create and the labour Nothing Timberg wrote about in his book has gotten bet- arts was erased in an instance. So be it.” necessary for creation. With old standards of beauty and ter in the last five years; I wanted to see if he had written In an article published in the online magazine Quillette skill discredited, standards of relevance and “authentic- anything as a follow-up, or had insights about what lock- in June, Niedzviecki returned from his creative Elba to ity” have become crucial, and with it the ability to pro- down would mean for that creative class. note that his principal accuser had turned on one of mote or demolish careers based on identity (authentic or A quick Google search informed me that Timberg had her greatest allies in the social media campaigns against assumed) and opinions (current or past.) killed himself five days before Christmas last year, leaving cultural transgressors like himself. What transpired was Which is a great way of distributing weapons to the behind a wife and child. Ultimately, it seemed, he had that this ally had apparently made up their aboriginal inmates of industries shrinking in size and opportunity seen despair, discovered that there were reasons for it, and Metis heritage – a key component of their status and annually. and had been unable to escape its horrible insinuation. authority in our cultural caste system. His accuser had Feuding and denunciations aren’t traits new to the Striving to find a satisfactory conclusion in the epilogue written a long letter apologizing for her defense of her tiresome but abiding stereotype of the temperamental to the paperback edition of his book, Timberg hoped that former friend, now less visibly a minority, and promptly artist. So when a game of musical chairs is being played things might improve with “nerve and follow-through and kicked over the traces by deleting her Twitter account. for careers in the arts, it’s inevitable that shanks will get some luck.” It didn’t read like a robustly optimistic end- Niedzviecki could be excused for enjoying this small pulled and ambushes will happen in the showers. This is ing to his story, and I’m afraid I don’t have anything more but sordid plot turn – and the existence of the first few one of the worst things about a career in the arts: The cer- to add. paragraphs of the Quillette article could be uncharita- bly considered just that – but he goes on to insist that “I don’t wish my fate to be visited upon anyone, even Social conservatives are an important part of CPC base this pair. Instead I’m angry and disgusted all over again. Whatever purge results from this latest outrage will only Continued from p. 2 tives “park” their issues and er, Candice Bergen, is pro- politicians. heighten the climate of fear and repression that artists there is no surprise about support the party so it could life, but the new opposition O’Toole still has plenty already endure.” his positions. But the stri- focus on the economy. The house leader, Gerard Deltell, of time to prove to those “Instead of the creative, risk-taking cultural scene one dency of his socially liberal stinking albatross comment is pro-abortion. Of concern socially conservative party would expect from a country with a generous network of views was clear immediately. became MacKay’s stinking is Michelle Rempel Garner members who helped him support for the arts, not to mention a tradition of democ- And it is not promising that albatross. as the new health critic. She win the leadership that their racy and free expression, Canada is plagued by the oppo- he says he was elected as MacKay still obvious- is a vocal proponent of gay views will be taken seri- site,” writes Niedzviecki. a “pro-choice Conservative” ly thinks the party will be and abortion rights. Also ously. He can offer some “After I was cancelled, writers emailed me to tell me with a “strong mandate” and haunted by what he consid- troubling is Eric Duncan common-sense, widely sup- that they’d originally included indigenous and/or people will “lead” the party as such: ers the taint of social conser- being named the party’s ported socially conservative of colour as characters in their novels, but had subse- the strong mandate came vatism. He told CP: “When question period coordina- positions, namely backing quently struck those characters out. They did not want to from pro-life Conservatives you open the door to a crack tor. The rookie Ontario MP Cathay Wagantall’s private go through what happened to me (and others.) At one who might very well have of daylight on these social is an open homosexual who member’s bill to stop sex- point, I even got an email through an anonymous server. been voting against MacKay issues, it becomes very, very has said he wants to see selective abortion, prom- The sender was someone who said they wanted me to as much as they were voting difficult to win the country, the Conservatives become ising to rescind Justin know they were a person of colour who worked at a for O’Toole, and how does to present the party as mod- more modern and inclusive. Trudeau’s multibillion-dol- major news organization and they completely agreed with the leader reconcile leading ern, inclusive.” Duncan will have great influ- lar foreign aid program to me. But they were too afraid to use their name or say the party as a “pro-choice” O’Toole was also using ence on the questions back- provide and promote abor- where they worked.” Conservative while respect- the words modern and benchers ask and could use tion abroad, and vowing If I wanted to be cruel, I might suggest at this point ing the views of those who inclusive extensively in his his position to silence social to do everything to defeat that Canada’s “generous network of support for the arts,” hold different views on first weeks as leader. These conservative concerns. the government’s attempts being primarily a matter of government subsidy, was abortion? What does that are often code for parking CLC launched a petition to broaden the euthanasia clearly never more than a top-down show of conditional look like? social issues far out of the calling on O’Toole to give license. He must also ensure largesse that never had much support from the bottom As for MacKay, he knows sight of media and voters. Derek Sloan an important fair local nomination votes up. Even more cruelly, I’d wonder if Canada’s democracy why he lost: social conserva- It does not augur well for position in the shadow cabi- and a policy convention free was less a tradition than a habit, and if freedom of expres- tives cost him the election. those who want a level play- net, one befitting his stron- of shenanigans so that if the sion was ever really encouraged as much as it’s spoken He told the Canadian Press ing field to win nomina- ger-than-expected first bal- party base wants to pass about as the sort of thing we value – as long as it doesn’t that he was looking past tions at the riding level and lot showing. But Sloan was pro-life and pro-family poli- cause too much trouble. the CPC leadership cam- policies at the forthcoming not given a critic’s portfolio, cies, it can. But what’s really interesting about the punishment paign and too focused on national convention, some- despite the fact that about As CLC said in its analy- meted out to Niedzviecki is how much it looks like a winning the general elec- time in 2021. a third of caucus is in the sis, “social conservatives are putsch or a show trial – the sort of thing that happens tion. (Some might call that Pro-lifers were looking 43-person shadow cabinet. a vital part of the CPC’s when status and favour are keys to success in a closed hubris.) While he made for signs that O’Toole was Lewis is not a part of base, which the party can- social or political organization, and eliminating competi- some gestures to social con- giving social conservatives caucus, but she announced not ignore.” If the O’Toole tion is a key to climbing another rung on the ladder. servatives in the leadership the respect they deserve in she is going to run in the Conservatives ignore their A career in the arts has never been easy. Starving in race – he flip-flopped on the team he assembled in southwestern Ontario rid- base and fail to recognize garrets and dying in obscurity are clichés of the bohemian whether cabinet members his frontbench. Several pro- ing of Haldimand-Norfolk, the important contributions life that came into being with Romanticism, and have sur- would have a free vote and life MPs got positions includ- where the Conservatives that pro-life and pro-family vived through industrial and communications revolutions sent out a letter signed by ing Michael Barrett (ethics have won since 2004 with Canadians bring to the party on into the digital age. Every aspiring actor, painter, writ- pro-life MPs who were back- critic) and Dane Lloyd (digi- Diane Finley. Earlier this in terms of policies and prin- er and musician knows that the odds are stacked against ing his candidacy (although tal government critic), but summer Finley announced ciples, the Conservatives are them; riches and fame might be unreasonable goals, but they could not point to poli- other than Garnett Genuis she would not run again likely to lose another gen- surely the ability to pay the rent while seeking the next cies MacKay was offering (international development) and the seat is considered eral election by being a pale role, exhibition, gig, byline or book deal isn’t too much that might justify supporting and keeping Rob Moore as a safe one. Lewis is also imitation of the Liberals. to ask? him) – MacKay had been too justice critic, few of them raising her profile by writ- We may know soon enough Lately, however, it has been. In his 2015 book Culture hostile to social conserva- got positions in which they ing a series of columns in what O’Toole means by a Crash: Killing the Creative Class, Scott Timberg tries to tives for too long. He did could highlight issues of the National Post calling for Conservative Party that break down how economic, social, cultural, and political not help himself when he concern to social conserva- national discussions about includes social conserva- trends, going back decades but increasing in pace since suggested social conserva- tives. The new deputy lead- topics typically ignored by tives. THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 — PAGE 11 Establishing justice and Prayers, donations needed Continued from p. 5 two-paragraph story about the latest political development. preventing a euthanasia death If there is a federal election, please check our website for pro-life election news. We are unsure when the November Alex Schadenberg been approved for eutha- injunction was granted, the a judge agrees that the edition will go to press and whether it will cover the elec- Commentary nasia, even though there Nova Scotia MAiD authority assessments stating that he tion results or not, if there is an election to cover. You might were conflicting euthanasia arranged two more assess- does not qualify for eutha- receive the next edition of the paper earlier or later than In July, the Euthanasia assessments, and he was ments for Katherine’s hus- nasia are correct, but he is usual. Prevention Coalition scheduled to die on August band, with doctors who already dead by euthanasia? ** received a phone call from 3. are strongly supportive Where is the justice? Katherine in Nova Scotia Canada’s euthanasia of euthanasia. These new Katherine’s husband About the website: we know, it is not very good. In 2008 who was very upset because law requires two approv- assessments were written remains alive and the trial when we last updated it, the website was very good. Now it her husband, who lives with als for euthanasia, or what in such a way as to con- will go forward on Sept. 24. looks and feels dated and practically inoperable on mobile a chronic obstructive pul- is euphemistically called vince the judges that he was The Euthanasia phones. We are in the process of updating our website monary disease, but is not Medical Aid in Dying fully competent and actu- Prevention Coalition needs and the goal is to have the new one ready by sometime in otherwise dying, was seek- (MAiD). Katherine’s hus- ally dying. help. Katherine could not November. I’m excited about the opportunities this update ing approval for euthana- band was approved for The preliminary trial was have sought an injunc- provides us, and I will write more about that in a future sia. Katherine was shocked death by lethal injection heard on August 7. The tion or gained a trial date issue of the paper. Please be patient with our old website, when a known euthanasia because he had two approv- judge agreed that a hearing concerning her husband’s which I encourage you to access on a laptop or desktop. doctor determined that als, even though there were for the injunction could go euthanasia approval if she The new design and update will cost us at least $5,000 just her husband qualified for several assessments deny- forward, but lifted the tem- did not have the support of to get the website re-launched. If you are of the means and euthanasia even though ing him euthanasia because porary injunction. Since the Euthanasia Prevention are inclined to do so, we ask that you support this endeav- another doctor’s assess- he was not actually dying Katherine’s husband was Coalition. our. We take being good stewards of our limited resources ment stated that he didn’t or because the assessment already approved for eutha- Currently the law seriously and will use your donation to make necessary and qualify because his natural stated that he was mentally nasia, Hugh Scher immedi- requires two doctors or overdue changes to a website that, we hope, will provide death was not reasonably incompetent. ately appealed the decision nurse practitioners to archival research material for those seeking pro-life informa- foreseeable. The Euthanasia and sought an extension approve a death, for the tion while permitting access to the most recent editions of Katherine explained that Prevention Coalition agreed of the temporary injunction euthanasia death to occur. the paper to subscribers. her husband had some to pay the legal costs for until the appeal was heard. The law does not give any The Interim website looks and feels dated and it does not signs of dementia, but he Katherine, thus giving her The temporary injunction bearing to assessments that interact with mobile phones and other new technological also had delusional ideas the ability to hire lawyer, was maintained and the say someone doesn’t qual- devices. Therefore, it is limited in being able to readily pro- about his health, meaning Hugh Scher, and seek date for the appeal was set ify and the law provides vide data that people today, especially young people, expect he thought he had medi- an injunction to prevent for August 26. no avenue for challenging to find on a website. As a Canadian pro-life, pro-family site cal conditions that the doc- her husband’s euthanasia Once again, the judge false assessments or misdi- we must do everything we reasonably can to help inform the tors had confirmed that he death. who heard the appeal agnoses. public and especially you, our subscribers with up-to-date, didn’t have. On July 31, a tempo- scheduled the trial for The legal costs are reliable, and easily-accessed information. Check out www. The situation got worse. rary injunction was grant- Sept. 24, but she lifted prohibitive. At this point theinterim.com and bookmark or favourite it. Katherine informed us ed and a trial was sched- the temporary injunction. it is estimated that the The redesign will cost a minimum of $5,000. We strive to that her husband had uled. After the temporary Therefore a court date has Euthanasia Prevention be good stewards of the limited resources we have. If you been set to determine if Coalition will face at least are moved to help us in this endeavour, please donate to Katherine’s husband quali- $50,000 in legal costs. ensure we can finish this project on time and add features fies for MAiD, but since the Donations can be sent to that will make it a truly dynamic pro-life website. Perhaps temporary injunction was the Euthanasia Prevention you would like to give a donation in memory of someone lifted, her husband could Coalition at Box 25033, who was an Interim reader, and you feel that this is a way die by MAiD at any time. London, Ont., N6C 6A8 or of ensuring that their pro-life work continues. If you would This is a ridiculous situa- by calling 1-877-439-3348. like to recognized for your donation of $50 or more in our tion. Why would you both- list of Friends for Life. Please note you would like your name er setting a court date to Alex Schadenberg, a or the person you are remembering listed. 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Ancaster, Ontario New Westminister, British Columbia Saint Mark’s Parish Star of the Sea Parish Kitchener, Ontario Surrey, British Columbia Peterborough pro-life icon passes Interim Staff saturated it with bodies – is to tell the Board of opposing the expansion a Pro-Lifer’.” stitches as he reeled off five then the pregnant mothers Governors that the people of “any abortion facilities Hughes called Morgan jokes.” Paul Morgan, a long- and doctors couldn’t get of Peterborough are not in our region and demand the epitome of the happy Bad news, Hughes said, time pro-life activist in through. Towards the end going to sit by and let the that all future abortions be warrior, recalling Morgan “never got him down,” as he Peterborough, passed away of the day, the police came killing of innocent little stopped,” which garnered “playing piano or squeeze reminded his pro-life col- on Sept. 2 at the age of 85. with their paddy wagons babies continue. They have 6000 signatures. box at all pro-life events, leagues: “remember God is Jim Hughes, president and 75 of us were arrested. The board deferred a showing that we are a joy- in charge.” In a 2011 inter- emeritus of Campaign The clinic remained closed decision for several months ful movement.” Morgan, view with LifeSiteNews, Life Coalition, told The for the day.” before ultimately voting to who did not read sheet Morgan said, “all we can do Interim that he met Morgan But it was locally where expand abortion access in music but “seemed able to from here-on-in is do what more than 35 years ago, Morgan really made his the area. play any song,” was also an we can -- in other words and that he was involved mark. Peterborough Right In a February 1998 accompanist to the famed --fight the battle.” in everything the pro-life to Life organized the Peterborough RTL news- Leahy family in Lakefield, Paul was the son of movement was active in. weekly pickets at the Civic letter Morgan explained Ont., early in their musical Eunice and David Morgan, Morgan became a board Hospital beginning in 1986 to those who had recently careers. who brought pro-life, pro- member for CLC Ontario and every Saturday, without joined the association: “You Hughes said that Morgan family Catholics into their in the 1980s and remained fail, pro-life activists have joined because you believe was a master teller of sto- home for monthly gath- an important contributor continued to witness for the that the killing of babies, ries and jokes, and that the erings at which speakers to the board until recently. unborn at the Peterborough yet-to-be-born, is wrong sense of humour stayed were invited to make pre- Hughes said that Morgan Regional Health Centre as and should not be permit- with him until the end. sentations and encourage could be counted on to the hospital is now called.” ted under any circumstanc- Five weeks before Morgan discussion. The late Fr. Al bring both humour and When the hospital board es. …“Being Pro-Life means passed away, Hughes called de Valk and other clergy insight to the annual meet- of governors voted to acting, not just believing, him and “he had me in were regular participants. ings and monthly confer- expand its abortion facili- Paul Morgan and that action has to be ence calls. ties in the community with persistent and constant.” Hughes remembered the announcement of the not only to hear us, they The newsletter went on to Morgan as “an outstand- creation of the “Women’s have to listen to us.” say: “But if you do act, if ing activist and faithful Health Care Clinic,” the reg- Peterborough Right to you get involved, then and Christian who stood up for ular pickets, Peterborough Life also presented petitions only then, can you say ‘I’m what he believed” and “a RTL decided it had to do wonderful ally in the pro- more. In December 1997, a life struggle.” candlelight procession and Contraception Morgan was the long- prayer vigil attracted almost time president of the 2000 participants in the bit- often leads Peterborough Pro-Life ter cold to rally against the to abortion Association, ran for the board of governors’ deci- Family Coalition Party in sion. 2007 (winning 665 votes), A report at the time said Pray for an end to local CLC representative it took 15 minutes for the contraception and who organized everything crowd to pass the hospital. For openness to from hospital pickets and Morgan helped organize the the LifeChain to nomina- event and an accompanying God’s Gift of Life tion meetings for pro-life campaign of letters to the Sponsored by politicians. editor to the Peterborough In October 1988, Examiner. A pro-life mem- Morgan was among 75 ber of the board drew open Saint Edward the Confessor pro-lifers arrested at an the curtains in the room Operation Rescue event in they were meeting in in Westport, Ontario Toronto. Morgan later told order for her colleagues LifeSiteNews: “The philoso- to see the demonstration, phy of Operation Rescue but another board member Saint Columbanus was that if we blocked the closed them. entrance ways to the abor- Morgan told The Interim Elgin, Ontario tuary with bodies – just at the time: “This vigil THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 — PAGE 13 Revolt against the managers Paul Tuns elite in The New Class War. neoliberalism” which might Lind is incredibly sym- shalling evidence (eco- populism is a symptom. Book Review It is surprising, consider- be better called cosmopoli- pathetic to the “defensive nomic data, public opinion Technocratic neoliberalism ing that Burnham wrote tan liberalism: an increas- reaction” against the man- surveys), especially when it is the disease. Democratic his important book near- ingly globalized market- ager class, saying that what comes to how the manage- pluralism is the cure.” And ly eight decades ago, that place for goods and services is often dismissed (and rial class replicates itself that is catchy but ultimately barely anyone (excepting and the cultural priorities partly misunderstood) (the children of the elite impractical. Why would the the cranky paleoconserva- of academics. Lind, in fact, as the desperate cries of disproportionately popu- technocratic elite, having tive Samuel Francis) has uses the term “cosmopoli- outdated economic self- late the elite universities, gained power, give it up? taken up the Manager Class tan over-class” to describe interests and/or racial which provide the cre- Counting on the benevo- as a starting point to under- the manager class that took resentment, are, in fact, dentials to fill the ranks lence of the manager class stand current events since power – complete power, “legitimate grievances.” of the managerial class). seems pointless. It means then. Lind does so quite unleavened by democratic Where Lind comes His weakness is in talk- that when the masses rise ably. means in which the major- up short is in the total- ing about the moral and up and elect someone will- Lind explains what ity middle- and working- ity of those grievances. He other cultural issues or val- ing to shake up the status he calls “native working- class majority can restrain treats moral issues like ues that are not related quo, those politicians must class populism” in Brexit the impulse to officially abortion and homosexu- to race, like immigration, act, and act quickly. Too The New Class War: Britain, the United States, privilege every personal ality very briefly, saying tolerance, and multicultur- often, it seems, though, Saving Democracy from and parts of Europe (even inclination and self-inter- that the American judi- alism, and illustrating the the powerful managers in the Managerial Elite by when it doesn’t win), est. ciary has taken too many gap between the managers place – bureaucrats who Michael Lind (Portfolio, which is identifiable with In the last half decade, issues out of the hands of and the masses. stifle change, judges who $34, 203 pages) issues such as immigration the political eruptions the democratic process. If not long gone, at least over-rule it, educational and sovereignty. These are occurring throughout “Government by judiciary in what seems like terminal institutions that resist it, n 1941, James Burnham symptoms of a larger prob- much of the western world tends to be a dictatorship decline, are the institutions corporations powerful Iwrote an international lem, argues Lind, namely (save Canada), middle- of over-class libertarians in of “countervailing power” enough to ignore it – can bestseller, The Managerial power. “Social power exists class but mostly working- robes,” he says of courts that restrained the man- simply afford to wait it out Revolution: What is in three realms,” Lind class citizens embarked that have struck down ager class and gave voice till the problematic disturb- Happening in the World. explains, “government, on a defensive “popu- restrictions on abortion as to the masses. Churches er is gone. Even then, Burnham found the economy, and the cul- list backlash,” a perhaps well as labour union rights, or civic association, unions, Lind has offered a useful that the age of capitalism ture” and all three realms momentary respite for the while promoting corporate and local party machines, diagnosis of the problem. and bureaucracy was being “are fronts in the new class masses that felt utterly dis- interests and creating new all gave the middle- and It is up to the electorate to replaced by a group of war.” empowered. However, the rights for LGBTQ. Lind working-class masses a say fix it, but that will involve managers. Beginning in the ‘60s, political gains the masses does not say whether most in how things were run patience. Rome was not Michael Lind, a conser- there was a “revolution have made in which the of these actions are right or in the cultural, economic, built in a day. The manage- vative (early 1990s) turned from above that promoted ruling class (elected offi- wrong, merely that courts and political realms respec- rial elite will not be torn liberal (mid-1990s) turned the material interests and cials, bureaucrats, and should move cautiously tively. But no more. down in one presidential conservative again (after intangible values of the judges) must share some into policy areas and advo- Lind says: “Demagogic or parliamentary term. moving back to his home college-educated minor- power with voters whom cates of court-driven poli- state of Texas), has offered ity of managers and pro- they clearly disdain, is still cies should rather create as good an explanation of fessionals,” who were dwarfed by the economic “electoral coalitions to the economic, cultural, now the “dominant elite.” and cultural power that enact democratic legisla- Breaking up and, of course, political Democratic capitalism was remains in the hands of tion.” power of the managerial replaced by “technocratic these managerial elite. Lind’s strength is mar- America? Oswald Clark nation to see an attempted Book Review secession being tangled up in courts for decades. The civil rights quagmire The more important, and to this writer more persuasive Paul Tuns crimination have created lute equality was the goal, every imaginable manifes- argument is that Americans Book Review the cultural and political everything that stood in tation, real or not. Stewed would be better off in smaller divisions in American soci- the way, from poverty to in nearly a half-century of countries because the United ety today. Against this new strictures against various injustice-correction from States is currently too large to constitution, every law, reg- sexual behaviours, were the decisions of the highest succeed. Buckley says that the ulation, and even private wrongs to be corrected courts and levels of gov- ideological polarization cur- behaviour is judged mor- by state action. Invoking ernment to the entertain- rently infecting America risks ally permissible or not. both Shakespeare and ment we consume, to local hurtling it toward disintegra- The 1788 Constitution 1980s pop star Morrissey, schools, it is no wonder tion. That seems like an exag- has – or had – centuries of Caldwell says that the con- that individuals are taking geration, but it highlights the tradition, both jurispruden- flict between the sexual the power to right wrongs deep partisan divides in the tial and cultural, behind it. desires of individuals and into their own hands, most country and how difficult it is As Washington Post colum- society’s need for stability demonstrably through to rally the populace behind nist George Will has noted, has long been considered social media campaigns to American Secession: The any cause nowadays. until recently any federal- a tragedy, and along came “cancel” people with the Looming Threat of a National About a third of the book is or state-level debate about laws and court decisions to wrong views. Political cor- Breakup by F.H. Buckley a series of short chapters mar- a policy began with wheth- address it. rectness, easily mocked as a (Encounter, $31.99, 170 shalling evidence that smaller er the constitution permit- It may seem a stretch to foolish gesture in academia pages) is better than bigger when it ted it. But after the pass- equate reversing housing in the early 1990s, has comes to countries. Smaller ing of the 1964 law, says bans for blacks or employ- become a governing and .H. Buckley is a Canadian- countries are happier, wealthi- The Age of Entitlement: Caldwell, whether a policy ment discrimination weaponized philosophy of Fborn law professor whose er, freer, and less corrupt. But America Since the Sixties was deemed necessary to against visible minorities to individual behaviour, both star has risen as a pundit since there are important questions by Christopher Caldwell combat some perceived evil liberating unfulfilled sexu- internalized (self-censor- the election of Donald Trump of causality. There is no guar- (Simon & Schuster, 2020, trumped these traditional al appetites, and Caldwell ship) and external (cancel four years ago. He is a pro- antee that Americans would $37, 342 pages) constitutional concerns. risks preaching to the culture). lific author and his latest book be freer or more prosperous if This worldview “com- choir, but it is an argument This is a challenging is American Secession: The states began seceding. hristopher Caldwell mands the near unanimous worth considering. Or at book. Liberals – includ- Looming Threat of a National It is true that Texas would Cshould not be anyone’s endorsement of judicial least understand. Once ing liberal conservatives Breakup, a short volume that likely have more conserva- idea of a right-wing extrem- elites and civic educators,” the injustice correction like the openly homosex- examines the possibility of dis- tive laws, including pro-life ist. He is a columnist for the as well as the “passionate machine was put into oper- ual Jonathan Rauch – have uniting of America. Despite its protections, while New York centrist Financial Times allegiance to those who ation, there was no turning lambasted the Trumpian esoteric subject, this is a highly would likely have more lib- and has contributed to the received it as liberation.” it off. There is a constant undertones of the book. readable book for a main- eral laws, including abortion- right-of-center Wall Street And liberation is the name search for injustices to be (The President, by the way, stream audience. on-demand. But is that really Journal and increasing of the game. corrected, victims to be lib- is not mentioned once in Buckley argues that seces- going to end debates about left-wing New York Times. After 1964, govern- erated, and dignity to be the book, although it goes sion – that is, breaking off abortion in either state? There His c.v. includes titled posi- ment sought to right every conferred. What began with some way to explaining the from the American union of are still liberals in Texas and tions at a number of main- wrong. Every disparate out- blacks and women yester- 2016 election, and chari- states – is constitutional and conservatives in New York. stream American conserva- come, every hurt feeling, day would continue with tably presenting what the unlikely to face serious oppo- Ultimately, Buckley does tive publications. But he was literally a state matter, gay and trans today, and racial frustrations of many sition from the federal govern- not endorse secession. He is a is not afraid to make pro- and if it wasn’t yet, it would who knows whom tomor- Trump voters actually look ment. He is more convincing declared unionist who favours vocative arguments, and become, literally, a feder- row. As Caldwell notes like.) But some conserva- arguing the former than the offering more autonomy to his latest book, The Age of al case. Soon, as we see when discussing advancing tives might not like where latter. Some political scientists, the states. But for moral con- Entitlement: America Since today with cancel culture civil rights to homosexuals Caldwell places a fair bit including Buckley, subscribe servatives that are opposed to the Sixties, is an extended on social media and the as a class of people, homo- of the blame—on the so- to the idea that the federal abortion and same-sex “mar- argument against the civil courts being used to pun- sexuality was not only an called Greatest Generation. design of America is rooted riage,” it will not be enough rights law and the de jure ish recalcitrant bakers who “identity but a conduct.” Caldwell argues that those in compact theory: that what to hive off states as countries constitution it ushered in do not want to make wed- There are plenty of other who fought World War II the states made, they may tear or autonomous zones that to compete with the de ding cakes for gay couples, conducts which are crimes and defeated the evil of asunder. Buckley briefly exam- defend life and family, while facto Constitution of 1788. every individual act and today (as homosexual Nazism felt themselves ines political theory, early others do not; these are moral Caldwell’s argument is thought is being policed. behaviour once was) that gods to battle every injus- American political history, and goods that should be the law that the 1964 Civil Rights Caldwell says that the might become the basis for tice at home. And with case law to buttress his argu- everywhere, not only where Act, the 1972 amendment civil rights movement began protected classes of people the de facto Constitution ment that secession is permis- pro-life, pro-family citizens providing enforcement seeking to undo legal dis- in the future. shoved to the side, the do- sible. It is hard to imagine, form the majority of a particu- provisions in Title VII, and criminations against blacks It is not merely the gooders of this generation however, that the federal gov- lar jurisdiction. a body of Supreme Court which morphed quite machinery of government, and the next, will be armed ernment would not, at least, rulings effectively defining naturally into advocacy of including the legal system, with the de jure constitu- attempt to stand in the way of Oswald Clark writes about unrepresentative outcomes the welfare state and total that is put to the end of tion born in the 1960s and a state attempting secession. American politics for The as signs of unlawful dis- sexual liberation. If abso- battling discrimination in very much alive today. It does not take much imagi- Interim. PAGE 14 — THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 And then there was this … Canada prayer back to the classroom, he could hurt the Republicans. International According to a survey by Leger for the Association for He is on the ballot in Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa, The tiny nation of Malta is under attack. Again. It is fac- Canadian Studies (conducted Sept. 11-13), 87 per cent of Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, ing ‘intense international pressure’ to legalize abortion Liberal Party voters and 74 per cent of Conservative voters and Vermont. He missed filing deadlines in most states on demand. Ireland (2018) and Northern Ireland (2019) “support same-sex marriage.” In the United States, 77 per including Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, and Texas, abandoned their pro-life laws, leaving Malta as the only cent of Democrats and 46 per cent of Republicans do. In and filing to run in the swing state of Wisconsin is being completely pro-life country in Europe. Abortion in Poland other words, Conservative voters are more like Democrats challenged by the Democratic National Committee due to is illegal in most, but not all, cases. The European Union than they are Republicans, at least on this issue. allegations of fraud. Democrats charge that the West presi- was designed as an economic union, but its political and dential run is a Republican ploy to siphon votes from Joe juridical institutions have run roughshod over the national Michael Del Grande, a Toronto Catholic School District Biden to help re-elect President Donald Trump. institutions that should reflect local values and traditions. Board trustee, was cleared in August of complaints that To the mighty EU, even one, predominantly Catholic but he violated the trustee code of conduct. During the A letter was sent from the U.S. House Committee on tiny country protecting the preborn is something it cannot board’s 2019 debate adding pro-transgender language in Oversight and Reform to Disney slamming it for its hypoc- countenance. the Catholic board’s code of conduct, Del Grande allegedly risy in pretending to be caring about children around the disparaged individuals who identify as LGBTQ and conse- world, but, in reality, “hurting children and their families India’s Solicitor General, Tushar Mehta, said the Narendra quently faced a campaign to remove him from office. Del by its business practices.” The letter, sent Sept. 14 to Modi government would oppose the petition seeking rec- Grande tabled a motion asking whether other sexual behav- Disney CEO Bob Iger, stated: “Disney threatened to boycott ognition of same-sex marriages. “Our culture and law do iours the Catholic Church deems sinful such as pedophilia Georgia for its pro-life law that protects innocent babies but not recognize the concept of same-sex marriages,” he said. or bestiality should also be added to the code of conduct then gives a public ‘thank you’ to the Chinese Communist The demand to recognize LGBTQ marriages has gained for special protection. The “reductio ad absurdum” motion Party for allowing it to film parts of the movie Mulan where momentum after the decriminalization of gay sex in 2018 by was deemed out of order. Catholic elementary school the CCP is actively detaining over a million people and car- the top court, but thus far the government has not moved teacher and LGBTQ activist Paolo Buono told City News rying out a genocide of the Uyghur people” and, sterilizing to legalize same-sex “marriage.” he has asked Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Lecce Uyghur women. In May 2019, the Disney CEO said that it to investigate the whole TCDSB for “systemic homopho- would be “very difficult” for Disney to make movies in the bia” due to its refusal to censure Del Grande and that the state of Georgia after Governor Brian Kemp signed a bill Ministry provide oversight of the board until it completes banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. In the WILLIAM F. DENEAULT its investigation. Such charges are hyperbolic. When Del credits of the live-action feature Mulan, released exclusively Chartered Accountant Grande made the statement, it was condemned by both on Disney Plus, the company thanked the Turpan Bureau of Small Business Consulting then-director Rory McGuckin and board chair Joe Martino Public Safety, the same agency that imprisons the Uighurs. in a statement, saying it did not reflect the values of the For Disney, protecting preborn children – people who Financial Statements TCDSB. Del Grande’s valiant stand for Catholic moral would soon become consumers of Disney products if they Corporate and Personal Tax teaching earned him Campaign Life Coalition’s Joseph P. were allowed to live – is considered anathema, but filming Borowski award for pro-life and pro-family leadership in the in a brutal dictatorship in the very region where ethnic 21 St. Clair Ave. E., Suite 502 political arena last December. cleansing takes place is praiseworthy. These were not the Toronto, Ontario M4T 1L9 values of Walt Disney. This year, 40 Days for Life began on Sept. 22 in 588 cities Tel: (416)962-2186 Fax: (416)962-4622 around the world, including more than a dozen in Canada. Cuties, a new film created in France, has premiered on This prayerful witnesses have saved thousands of babies Netflix. It has been called a documentary, worth seeing, over the years. This year, it saved one Toronto child before nuanced, a nice coming-of-age story, a hideous video, a the Vigil was even launched. A local organizer posted 40 porn film, a look at the sexual abuse of young girls. IMDb, Days for Life videos over her church’s live-stream channel. A an on-line database that reviews films and is owned by pregnant woman was being pressured by her partner to kill Amazon, states that some of the scenes in the film are “law- her baby. “She reached out for us to pray for this situation,” fully defined as pedophilia.” The mainstream media and said the organizer on the 40 Days for LIfe website. After Hollywood are praising the film and blame all the fuss and praying about it, the mother went to what she thought was outrage on right-wing agitation and its critics who are “just Andy Groen an abortion facility but was in actuality the office of a pro- afraid of child sexuality.” Jack Posobiec, a journalist with [email protected] life doctor. The woman decided against having an abortion OAN, a conservative news network, says that Netflix is one 2514 Hwy 20 East Fonthill ON L0S 1E6 and was set up with a pro-life maternity home. Another 40 step away from calling their critics “pedophobes.” (How Tel. 905 892 3041 Fax. 905 892 1520 Days for Life success. long until pedophobia becomes a term of castigation used in polite society against those who want to maintain what United States seems like the last sexual limitation?) Fr. John Zuhlsdorf Last October, Kanye West, a black rapper, spoke out against (or Fr. Z as he is affectionately known) describes Cuties in picsmotorclinic.com abortion and pornography, and release an album entitled his blog: “What we see in Netflix and Cuties is an important “Jesus is King.” He has repeatedly talked about how he is stage in homosexualist incrementalism.” By this he means thankful that his mother did not kill him through abortion the gradual change of the image of a homosexual from a and has accused the abortion industry of systemically elimi- predator, to a victim (AIDS), followed by the cool, sensitive nating black people. Earlier this year he announced he was character on TV and in cinema, followed by the happily Quality Growers for Over 50 Years not running for president, but rather “walking” for it, and “married” homosexual couple. Cuties hyper-sexualizes little last month he gave an interview with the New York Times. girls, practically turning them into little whores, by depict- He said his goal is not to ban abortion, but to encourage ing pre-pubescent girls as sexually attractive, curious, and women to give birth to their babies through “stipends for available. The next hurdle in the destruction of home and families that need support, creating orphanages that are family is lowering the age of consent of those with whom really high-level desirable for people to go, and the redesign one can have sex. California has already proposed lowering FLORISTS LIMITED of communities and cities in general to be supporting of the age of consent to 14. Even if one accepts the argument families.” He has proposed eco-villages where women can that the show is merely describing what some pre-teenage Tel: 905-934-3196 “safely experience pregnancy and birth” and children would girls are feeling and going through, it is no over-reaction Fax: 905-646-7100 be cared for. He also asked the New York Times reporters to argue that the movie and the debate around it is a mile- Danny Hakim and Maggie Haberman, “does anyone at your stone: a step in the direction of normalizing pre-pubescent 58 Broadway Avenue magazine believe in Jesus.” Experts are not sure if West sex. On Sept. 19, the subscription analytics firm Antenna St. Catharines can play “spoiler” for either Democrats or Republicans: reported that Netflix is facing serious backlash over Cuties Ontario L2M 1M4 as a black candidate he could pull some votes from the and cancellations are five times the normal amount follow- Democrats, but as a pro-life evangelical who wants to bring ing its release. van der Zalm Brothers In MeMorIaM Mr. & Mrs. R.M. Abernethy Raymond Atance Catherine Belak Prof. Joe Boyle Mary Burton Frances & Francis (Frank) Rev. Gerald Cochran Antoinette Cote Victoria Abusada Josephine Attard James Belanger James Brannan John Busch J. Casey Dick and Dorothea Rev David R. Cote Mary Acommando André Audette Claude Belcourt Vega Brannan Frances Busuttil Mr. & Mrs. W. Patrick Cochrane George Cotnam Denis Adams Sr. Margaret Avery SJC Laurel Belanger Rev. P.G. Breen Mr. and Mrs. Sid Buxton Cashman Anthony Colangelo John Cotter Evangeline Adams Carmelo Azzopardi Bill and Dolena Bennett Trudy Breitfeller Adrianus Byleveld Judith Carty Mary Colangelo Dolores Couture Fr. Felix Agnew Evelyn Azzopardi Colin Bennett Mary Brennan Ed Cachia C. Bernard Cauley Caroline Cole Anne Cowan Evelyn Aitchison Adrienne Bachand John & Therese Bennett Paul Brioux Cecilia Cairnes Charlotte Cauley Fr. Ted Colleton CSSP Frederick J. Crawford Helen Albertson Henri Bachand Dr. John Bennett Thea Broering Clara Calabrese Dorothy Cauley Jack Coleman Tim Crowley Fr. Carl T. Albury Antoinette & Gus Badali Joseph Bennett Doris Brockhouse Rev. Alex Calder Winifred Cauley John Collins Frank Cuda Mrs. Isobel A. Allen Joseph Bagnato Kay Bennett Robert Brooks Mary, Sam, & Jim Lucia C. M. Cavanagh Aideen Collins Rev. T. Cullen Yvonne Allen Dr. R. 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Paul Clark OMI Bill Copps Grace D’Angelo Phil Arnsby Helen Beckberger Urbano Boltero Angus Burnett Archbishop James Carney Earl & Aileen Clarke Stella & Albert Corbett Alfred Daniels Frank & Mary Arrigo Wallace Bedolfe Sr Therese Bonneville Mary Burnett Paulette Caron Julia Clarke Nicholas and Lena Mary Dasch Dialina Furtado Arruda Joseph Beecher Anna Skarbek-Borowski William Burnett John Carroll Msgr. Donald Clement Cosentino Anthony & Anna Dauk Tina Arruda Leo Beecher Jean & Joseph P. Borowski Rita, Helen & Dr. Ruth Paulette Caron Richard Cleveland Gordon Costello John Dauk Art Arsenault Mr. & Mrs. S.Begg M. A. Bortoluzzi Burnie Estelle Carson Paul & Gertrude Clune Carol Teresa Costin Richard Dauk Herni Arsenault Laurence Behon Luc Boutin Charles & Edna Burns Dorothy Carston Bishop Robert Clune Jonathon Costin Mary Louise Dauvin Mary & Alfred Ashfield Dr. Patrick Beirne Mary Bowers Mike & Clare Burns Cecilia Cartlidge Sandra Elizabeth Cluney Shawn Matthew Costin Albert David THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020 — PAGE 15 In Memoriam Howard David John M. Forrestal Michael Hendrick Dr. Andre LaFrance Bishop Paul McHugh Edward O’Brien Carrie & Fred Rubeniuk Abraham Tharakan John & Rose Deans William Fournier Larry Henderson Mary Lamarche Mrs. Gene McHenry June O’Brien Cheryl Rubeniuk Joyce Thomas Mr. & Mrs. H. W. deGuerre J. Willy Fortin Michael James Hendrick Terry Laming Fr. Donald McIsaac Matilda O’Brien Helen Rubeniuk Greg Thompson Thomas Deis Teresa Foster Robert Hendry Thom Lamb Jack McKenzie Thomas F. O’Brien Fr. Eugene Rudachek Helen Thompson Tony, Marilyn, Mandy, Catherine Fox Mother St. Henry SOLI Roberta M. Lang Mr. & Mrs. Harry George O’Connell Msgr. Jaroslav Rudachek Fr. Joseph Thompson Jackie & Kim Deis Msgr. Vincent Foy Frances Hergott Thomas Lang McLaughlin Fr. John O’Donnell Thomas E. Rudland Therese Thorniley Rev. J. J. Delaney Gus Fraser Rev. Fr. Ben Herman OMI Gus Lanzerotta Tom McLellan Mary Kathleen O’Connell Jacob Runstedler Bill Tiernay Peggy Delaney Joan Fraser Mary Hersey Sr. Beatrice LaRocque Alex McLellan Peggy O’Conner Alma Ryan C. Timmermans Mary Delmas Maude Frechette Rev. Harold Heustin John Laverty George Peter McLoughlin Cardinal O’Connor Aquinas Ryan Theodora Timmermans Peter Denbiesen Msgr. Francis French Mary Hickey Charles Lavery Peter G. McLoughlin Joyce O’Connor Rev. C.C. Ryan Dr. Kevin Toal Alfred De Manche Jacques Frenette Harry Hilvers Gloria Lawrence Eric McLuhan Mary E. O’Connor Edward Ryan Eileen Tobin Maria De Manche Ester Frid Edward Hinca Lillian LeBlanc Marion McManamy Norine O’Connor John Ryan Monica Townsend Paul Dentandt Wallace Frid M. & C. Hinchey Clayton A. Lee Loretta McManus Sr. Margaret O’Donnell Rev. Lloyd Ryan Mary C. Tracey Charlie Deryaw Frank Friesen Edith Hoddinnott Lucille Lee F., T., & K. McMorrow Mary O’Donnell Minna Ryan Agnes Treacy Mary Desautels Joseph, Margaret, Carl Harold Hoffman Yvon H Lefebvre Jim & Kitty McNamee Bishop Fergus O’Grady, Reginald Ryan Lorenzo Treacy Mary R. Deveaux Fritz Enos & Senja Hogan Peter Legris Betty McPhee OMI Fr. Leo Sands CSB Remo Trifone Dan Devlin Cameron Fuller Walter Holden Dr. Jerome Lejeune Abbot Maurus McRae OSB Lappan O’Hearn Giovanni Santilli Theresa Tritt John Devlin Thomas Furlong Ray & Rita Holmes Gerald Lepage Dr. J. Brendan McSherry Marty O’Leary Elisa Savelli Fr. Michael Troy C.S.Sp. Mary Devlin Jack Gadsden Fr. Anthony Holowaychuk Gerry Lesarge Deacon Frank McTeague Mary O’Leary Richard Savelli Margaret Trudeau (Barrie) Charles deVeber Lorenzo Gagnon Sandra Hook Herman Leusink Patrick Meany Sr. St. John O’Malley Anne Scala Teresa Tse Lau Theresa & Victor de Marg Gagnon Peter Hopkins Jane Le Vay Abbot Eugene Medved Brian Joseph O’Neill Margaret Scandiffio Rev. Francis Turk Vietoris M. & C. Gallagher David Horrox John Le Vay OSB Francis & Alma O’Neill Dr. M.A. Scandiffio Sr. Mary Turmball Tatiana Diachynsky Adelard Gallant Denise Hounjet Roth Naomi Le Vay Dr. Joseph Meehan James Sheean O’Neill Harry Schadenberg Margaret J. Turnbull Cleta Dias Francis Gallant Fr. Sylvester Howe Maurice Lewis Fr. Matthew Meehan J. J. O’Neil Francis Schafer Marie Vachon Peter Vincent Dias Margaret Gallant James Howes Frank Lippert Rev. Thomas Mercer John J. O’Neill Carl Allen Scharfe Cecilia Vaillancourt Richard Di Domenico Rita Gallant Tom and Ruth Hoy Amandio Lino Corine Menton Brian Joseph O’Neill Margaret Scharfe Edmond J. Valin Olga DiFrancesco Louise Gale Mary Hubbard Ann & Tony Liptok Maria Merhar William Henry O’Neill Mary Scheer John Valcour Angiolina & Rosario Di Dr. Reginald A. Gallop Robert ‘Bob’ Hubert Robert Litster Dr. Harda Meyer M. Catherine O’Neill Mello Schiebel Rosemary Valcour Rocco Mrs. Alma Mary Gallop Walter Huculak Evelyn Lobsinger Dr. Helmut Meyer Fr. J.V. O’Reilly, OMI Clara J. Schollen Leo Vallieres Herbert J. D’Rozario Mary C. Ganley Dr. Stan Hudecki Bishop Thomas Lobsinger Fr. Tom Melady John O’Reilly Fr. M.J. Scully Fr. Henk Van Den Berg John Dineen Royal Galipeau Fr. Bob Hudson C.S.Sp. Fr. Arnold Loebach Rev. James Mihm Mary O’Riordan Professor Al Selinger Martin Vandenbroek Mary Dobell Francisco Ganhao Max Hudson Tom Lorn Mary Ann Miller John Osborne Jack Selman Mary VanHee Monica & Robert Dodds Wilfred Garrah Mary Hughes Mary Lotecki Maureen Miller Charles Osbourne John Senica Tony Van Den Heuvel Alma Doherty Msgr. M. Gaudreault Fr. Ben Human Mary Lou Love Tom Minnery Connie Osbourne Bridget Shaw K. van der Hoeven Martin Doleweerd Bro. Ernest Gauthier Br. James C. Hunt Andrzej Lowinski Harold Mitchell Geraldine Osbourne John Sheridan Clemens van der Zalm Eleanor & Louis Libbie Gauthier Robert Hurley Mary Agnes Lunman Margaret Mary Mitchell Danny O’Shea Mike Schwartz Mary van der Zalm Dombowsky Rev. Lorrain Gauthier Lorraine Hutchings Gilles Lusignan Fr. Thomas Mohan C.S.B. Marie O’Shea Mello Schiebel Ted van der Zalm John Donoghue Margaret Gauthier Evelyn Hygens E. Lynch Fr. John Mole OMI Helen Oster A. & J. Schillaci John Van Veen Norbert Donovan Harold Gavin William Ibara J. Lynch Agnes Molloyloy Judge J. O’Sullivan Phyllis Schley Frits Van Ommen Kloeke Marie & Dr. David Dooley Henryk Gawlik Msgr. J. H. Ingoldsby John Lynch Fr. Oliver Moloney Dr. Paul O’Sullivan Dirk Schuurman Gerard van Ruyven William D’Oranzio Fr. John Geary C.S.Sp Tom Ireton Michael Lynch John Monti Fr. Sean O’Sullivan Margaret Sim Apolonia “Polly” van Nina Dotimas Larry Geraghty Joseph Isber Br. Garland P. Lyons Kay Moon Père Ouellet Msgr. Simpson Ruyven Jim Douros Peter & Patricia Gerretsen Peter Intihar Fr. B. J. MacDonald Margaret Mooney Rita Padoin Roy Seymour Nora Pritchard Veitch Michael Doyle Dr. T. Gregory Gibbons Michael Izzotti Fr. Ray MacDonald Orval Mooney Helena Palynchuk Gertrude Schnieders Richard Vendryes Charles Driscoll Kim Gibbons Jeannie Jablonski Frank MacDonald Msgr. Patrick Morand Dennis Papillon Giuseppe & Marianne Bishop Austin Venner Fr. Joseph Driscoll Sheila Gibbons Joseph Jabro Rev. R. MacDonald Fr C. Moreau, CSsR Bill & Anita Parker Scime Ita Venner Mary M. Driscoll Paul Giblin Philip Jabro Rev. Thomas A. Dr. & Mrs. Alfred Morgan Stephen Parker Fred Sgambati Philip Vince Stella Driscoll Evelyn Gibson Joan Jackson MacDonald C.S.B. George Morgan Elizabeth Parkinson Roy Shannon Dr. Dick Vinden Vincent Driscoll Fr. Norb Gignac Rev. Reynolds James Br. Edmund C. MacEnroe Dr. & Mrs. J. Russell Teresa Parsons Catherine Sheehan Fr. Gino C. Violini Enos Drouillard Peter C. Giovannetti Ted Janssen Catharine MacFarlane Morgan Peter Paskey James and Alma Sheehan Nettie Von Dehn Mary Ann D’souza Annie Giovannetti Wilfred Jervis James MacFarlane Fr. Kenneth Moreau Wilfrid Passberg Fr. Vladimir Shewchuk Czeslawa Vostrez Cecile Dubeau Rena Glass Theodora Jilesen John Richard MacFarlane Teresa Moreau Joseph Passmore Reta Shibley Irene Vosylius Ed Duepker Frances E. Glasser Ivar & Jan Johnson Robert Mackalski Irene Morel Catherine Patrick Stella Silbernagel Juozes Vysniauskas Grand Knight Cecil Duffy Joseph M. Glasser Archbishop Martin Marcella ‘Cella’ MacLellan David & Eunice Morgan Sherry Pattenden Robert Sim Leonard Waechter Paul Duffy DMaureen Godsoe Johnson Anna Eileen MacKenzie Dr. & Mrs. G.A. Morgan Don Patterson J. A. Sirdevan Jennie Wagenaar Gail Duggan r. Walter H. Godsoe Lloyd & Pearl Jones Francis J. MacNamara Mervin J. Morgan Patricia Paulo Ray Sisk Marina Wainwright Julia Duggan Clarence James Goff Archbishop Anthony Lois Aileen MacNamara Rev. Thomas Morley Madeleine Payette Fr. Francis Skumavc Rita Wales Sherman and Julie Rudy Goller Jordan Mary MacNeil Clotilde Morris Lloyd Perdue Annette Slattery Br. Eamon B. Walsh Duggan Steve Goller Tom Jordan Roderick MacNeill Elwood Morris Rev. Fred Perna Charles Slattery Mary Walsh Sister Adele Dumont RC Dolores Gordon Rose Josephs Theresa MacNeil Eveline Morris Carmen Pequegnat Niel Slykerman William ‘Billy’ Walsh Hugo & Rose Dumont Margery Gomes Dr. D. Dawn Jubb Sam & Antonia Magro Marie Morris Michael Perrie Peter Smit Molly Walton Dr. H. Dumont Fr. Pat Gorman C.S.B. Bernard Kane Lillian Maguire Ernie Morin Nicholas E. Phelan Art & Anna Smith Margaret Wappel Marc and Elizabeth Giannina Gosgnach Rose & Francis Kastelan Ambrose Mahoney Frank Mountain Dr. Tony Petrasek Elisabeth Smith Donald Ward Dumont Fr. James Gosson Deacon C. Kazmierski Evelyn Malone Sr. Mary William Moyer Benita Phillips Helen Smith Alex Wassill Lucy A. Dumont Rose Gouin Walter &Jean Kazun Karen Malone CSJ John Phillips Paul Msgr. Robert Smith Angie Weber Margaret Dumont Lidwien Grafe Fr. John Keeler Joseph & Rose Mahoney Maria Mrozek Ambrose Pick Thurston & Mary Smith Mary Weber Mark Dumont DDS Olive Graham Rev. Kieran Keena Rev. Andrew C. Maracle Kitty Muggeridge Aloysius Pimento Rev. Leo Smythe Judy Weicker Michael & Maria Dumont Irene Granger Avery Keenan Walter Marshall John Muggeridge Fr. Edwin Platt Carol Snelgrove Ed Weidinger Sister Mika Dumont Elaine Grant Joan Kelly Sr. J. J. Martino Malcolm Muggeridge Florence Pennachetti Terry Snyder Maureen Wesson Paul and Mildred Dumont Mary Grant Margaret Kelly Michele Marzilli Bill Mullins Hugh & Ann Platt Dorothy Sobchuk Fr. Francis West, S.J. Tilla Dumont Miriam Grant Mary Kelly Maureen Masterson Agatha W. Mulder- Most Rev. Philip Pocock Andrew & Tess Somers Mr & Mrs Johannes Wever Darlene Duncan Andres Gras Norah Kelly Trudy & Ted Masterson Homburg Adele Pollock Margaret Somerville Const. Catherine Wever Josephine Dundas Benedict Grech Terry Kelly Astrid Kristine Mattheson Bernice Mulhall Joe & Claudine Pope Msgr. Peter Somerville Frank Whelan David Dunsmore Joseph & Giovanna Grech Fr. Tony Kelly C.S.B. Fr. Carl Matthews S.J. James Mullen Mrs. Hector Pothier Fr. Stephen Somerville Fr. James Whelan Dr. Art Dunn Desmond Green Herman J. Kemperman Fr. Wilf McAneney Nina Mullen Patricia Poulo Norman Sonmer Noreen E. White Sr. Lucille Durocher Dominic Green Fr. John Kenna Fr. Paul James McAvoy Trudi Mullen George Power Joseph Spadolla James Whyte Sr. Mary Edmund CSJ Joan Green Archie Kennedy Helen McCarney Paul & Trudi Muller Jude G. Power George Spencely Mary Whyte Marci Edwards Marjorie Green Christina Ileen Kennedy Bill & Laura McArthur Dr. Ray Mulrooney Mary Power Mr. and Mrs. E. Squires Frank & Ivy Wickett Mary & Patrick Egan Canon Bob Greene Lew & Denise Kennedy Fr. Paul McAvoy Shawn Mulligan Virginia Power Deacon Michael Stadnyk Dr. Jack & Barbara Willke Rory Egan Joseph Greenwood Kevin Kennedy Marcella McCarthy Fr. Peter Mullin Sharon Prendergast Mother St. Henry Henry ‘Harry’ Williams Thomas Egan Sister Carmel Griffin Fr. Leonard Kennedy John McCabe Olivier Muloin John Prestwich Katherine Stang Lorraine Williams Paul Ella Dermot Griffin C.S.B. Fr. Tom McCann Rita Munnelly-Wood Mary Alice Prestwich Shirley Stanton Charles Williamson Catherine Ellis J.A. Griffin Paul Kennedy Frances McCarthy Teresa Munnelly Winifride Prestwich Kenneth James Stapleton Steven Wilhems Helen Emid Gilles Grondin Rory Kennedy Leo McCarthy Judith Munroe-Mills Margaret Preisel Peggy Steacy Fr. Clarence Wilson, CSP Senator Tobias Enverga Anna Gross Stella Kennedy Herbert McCarthy Frank Murawsky Veronica Price Gerry Sterling Chester Wing Dorothy Ennis Emily & Stanley Grzywna Michael Keogh John A. McCarthy G.& R. Murawsky Ann Pritchard George Sternik Cyril Winter Lisa Ermel (Grâfe) Joseph ‘Joe’ Grzywna Bernard Kerr John F. McCarthy Deacon Dan Murphy Maggie Pringle Rev. Msgr J. K. Luke & Ethel Winterburn Sr. Mary Eulogia CSJ Fred L. Halloran Fr. Y Keribinomi F. & G. McCollman George Murphy Marie T. Pringle Stephenson Kay Winterburn Edward Everson Debra Hale Gerald Keough Hope McDermott J. Aubrey Murphy Brendan Purtill Frank Stewart Norman and Jean Harrison Fahey Kathleen Haley Margaret Kinch Robert McDicken Joseph Murphy G. J. Quinlan Ralph Stewart Winterburn Gretta Fay Basil T. Hall Margaret Kinlin Rev. S.J. McDonald Fr. Joseph Murphy Eileen Quinn Heather Stilwell John Wishak William Fedor Ellis Hall Joseph T Kirwin Mary McDonald Patricia Murphy Fr. John Quinn, CSB Phyliss Stokes Cornelia Witteveen Fr. Joe Fenech Leone N. Haller Maria Klaming Loretta McDonnell Michal Musiol Msgr. Tom Raby Charlotte Stone James Woods Mary Ferguson Robert G. Haller Eduard Alexander Koehl Marion McDonnell Lorne Mysko Jack Rafter John Stone Josephine Wygerde Mary Ferraro Betty Hamon Joseph Kohek Wilfred S. McDonnell Paul Nabbe Edward Raftis Edwin Stroeder Catherine B. Young Doris &Frank Finn Rosemary Hanlon Stan Koma James McDowel Norma Nadolny Irene Ranalli Jim Sullivan Jerry Young Rita Finance Mary Kiernan Hannan Karl Koolen Owen McElhinney Ed Newell Bill Reason Sr. Dr. L. J. Sullivan Olga Young Beatrice Finucan Bill Harford Robert Koczekan Fr. Henry McErlean Joan Newton William Regan Sullivan & Ferrie Cecilia Yu Shuk-Han Carol Fisher Daniel Harper Fr. Anthony Korewa Margaret McFarlane Rev. T.M. Nichol Jerome Reinhart families Peter Zandstra Lois Fisher Winnifred C. Harrigan Anne Kostuik Thomas Carl McGarvey Mary & Patrick Nicol Fr. Joseph Reiter Julia Sulyma Sister Marie Zellie C.S.J. Van Fisher Jr. Ira & Etta Harrington Ann Kowdrysh Rev. John McGoey Anne Niesink Patricia Renford Louise Summerhill Fr. Cecil Zinger C.S.B. James Fitzpatrick Lillian Harrington Margaret Kraemer Dr. Paul McGoey Johannes Nieuwenhuis Francois Rinfret Stephen Summerhill Michael Zygocki Podge Fitzpatrick Tom Harrington Christine Kraw Rev. Fr. Desmond Peter Nightingale Nicole Roberts Stanley John Surman Fr. Norm Fitzpatrick C.S.B. John Harrington Debbie Kranenburg McGoldrick Anna Marie Nigro Patricie Roberts Joseph Sweeney Andalena Flaman Murray Harris Andrew Kroot Edward McGouty Teresa Norlund Ronald A. Ross Madeline Sweeney Mary Helen Flanagan Patricia Hartwell Bill & Jean Kurelek Albert McGovern Denis Normandy Andrzej Rowinski Mona Sweeney Michelle Fleming Margaret Hay Tony Kuttschrutter Murray McGovern Anne Novak Anne Rowland John Swiderski Fr. Robert Flurey Bill Hayes Fr. Stephen Kuzma Elizabeth McGrade Richard Nusser Marie Roy Raymond Switzer Patrick Flynn Tom Healy Alfred E. L’Heureux Anne McGrath William Nusser Maurice Cardinal Roy Therese & Walter Szetela Frank Foley Michael B. Hearn Dr. Ned Lacy William McGrath Walter & Hattie Napoleon Roy Paul Tarantello Peter Fonovil Maria Heissler Annabelle LaFramboise Ruth & Bernard McGraw Obidowski Roland Roy Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Teixeira PAGE 16 — THE INTERIM, OCTOBER 2020

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