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Liberal government The culture Nova Scotia attempts to of death enacts outlaw in the anti-free speech conversion time of bubble zone therapy coronavirus law p. 2 p. 4, 5, 8 p. 11 $5.00 Canada’s Life and Family Newspaper April 2020, Vol. XXXVII No.2 Conservative leadership race One pro-lifer barred from running One pro-lifer disqualified Two pro-lifers still in race p. 3 BARRED DISQUALIFIED www.theinterim.com PAGE 2 — THE INTERIM, APRIL 2020 Federal ban on Trudeau government proposes ‘conversion therapy’ conversion therapy ban threatens to jail Yukon looks to join provinces, cities outlawing the procedure Paul Tuns on the leadership ballot of conversion therapy to Alberta. A well-known caring parents supported by Campaign a person under the age of LGBTQ activist, Wells has On March 6, Justice Life Coalition, called the 18 – and I stress under the promoted a cartoon com- Minister David Lametti Trudeau government’s age of 18.” paring Christians to Nazis. tabled a bill to make it a C-8 “madness,” saying Campaign Life Coalition He also wrote a book urg- crime to outlaw conver- that if passed parents will director of political opera- ing municipalities to ban sion therapy for minors to go jail for trying to help tions, Jack Fonseca, criti- conversion therapy, and help them overcome same- their minor children. In cized both bills as a threat included among the types Law Matters sex extraction or gender an email to supporters, to religious freedom and of activities he wanted to confusion. Sloan said: “The Liberals the medical and spiritual see prohibited were talk John Carpay If passed Bill C-8 will condemn the notion that care and support some therapy, group therapy, add five new crimes to the parents should be able to confused youth are desper- spiritual prayer, exor- Criminal Code including help a child identify with ately seeking. “Any kind of cism, or medical or drug- causing a minor to under- the body they were born clinical therapy or spiritual induced therapy “which go conversion therapy, with. ‘Conversion thera- counseling to help a per- attempt to actively change f Trudeau’s Bill C-8 becomes law, parents could spend removing a minor from py’ is what they call any son overcome their gender someone’s sexual orienta- Iup to five years in jail for trying to help their son Canada to undergo such professional treatment in identity confusion and to tion.” accept himself as a boy, or for helping their daughter to treatment, to cause a per- this area. All the while, accept their bodily reality, Many municipalities, accept herself as a girl. C-8 would also impose prison son to have conversion the Liberals celebrate giv- including the pastoral sup- especially in Alberta, have terms up to five years for doctors, counsellors, psychia- therapy against his or her ing a child hormones and port … will be defined as followed Wells’ advice. At trists, psychologists, and other paid professionals whose will, to profit from conver- irreversible plastic surgery ‘conversion therapy,’ and least seven Alberta cities treatment for gender confusion departs from the new sion therapy, or to adver- as ‘gender affirmation’.” thus, become illegal.” have banned or limited gender orthodoxy. If MPs vote to make C-8 the law, par- tise such services. He added: “If that seems Fonseca also said that conversion therapy within ents and professionals wanting to help gender-dysphoric Bill C-8 defines “conver- backwards to you, that’s the political push is a reac- their borders, including children will effectively have only one legal option: to sion therapy” as “a prac- because it is. In fact, for tion to widespread mis- Calgary, Edmonton, Fort encourage a confused child to “transition” to the oppo- tice, treatment or service teenagers suffering from information. “At this very McMurray, and Medicine site gender. designed to change a per- Hat. “Transitioning” means taking puberty blockers, oppo- son’s sexual orientation Vancouver was the first site-sex hormones, and even undergoing permanent to heterosexual or gender Canadian city to outlaw sterilization and physical surgeries: healthy organs such identity to cisgender, or conversion therapy – ban- as breasts and testicles are removed. to repress or reduce non- ning advertising for the The Liberal government’s new ban on “conversion heterosexual attraction or therapy and refusing to therapy” defines it as “a practice, treatment or service sexual behaviour.” It adds: license businesses that designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to het- “For greater certainty, this offer it – in June 2018. erosexual or gender identity to cisgender, or to repress definition does not include Human rights tribunals or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behav- a practice, treatment or and professional bodies iour.” The term “cis-gender” (pronounced “sis-gender”) service that relates (a) to a have effectively outlawed is a term used by transgender activists to refer to a person’s gender transition; conversion therapy in woman who also feels like (or identifies as) a woman, or or (b) to a person’s explo- Quebec since 2012. Ontario a man who feels like (or identifies as) a man. Under C-8, ration of their identity or passed the Affirming trying to change “gender identity” to “cisgender” means to its development.” Sexual Orientation and trying to help a male feel comfortable as a male, or like- The penalties for adver- Gender Identity Act (Bill Ann Gillies speaking at a Campaign Life Coalition clergy wise helping a female to feel comfortable as a woman. tising or profiting from 77) in 2015, outlawing If C-8 becomes law, it will become criminal in Canada to such services is a maximum luncheon in February warning that bans on conversion conversion therapy for help boys and girls who struggle with gender identity to of two years in jail while therapy threaten religious freedom and parental rights. minors and prohibiting it find peace in accepting biological reality. those convicted of causing from being funded under Bill C-8 ignores the fact that the vast majority of chil- a child to undergo conver- gender dysphoria, it can moment, dishonest media the provincial health plan. dren experiencing gender identity disorder will outgrow sion therapy in Canada or be a nightmare.” outlets and even more The same year, Manitoba it by the time they reach the age of 18, provided that abroad or forcing an adult Sloan said the Trudeau dishonest LGBT activists Health Minister Sharon they are allowed to go through puberty. Over the course to undergo such treatment government is being “radi- are running around the Blady enacted measures to of many years, doctors Kenneth J. Zucker and Susan carries a maximum of five cally ideological – and country, lying and claiming end the practice in her Bradley helped hundreds of children at the Gender years in prison. completely out to lunch” that gays and lesbians are province, saying “it is the Identity Service of Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and In a press conference, with their “biggest prior- being electroshocked, and position of the Manitoba Mental Health feel comfortable in the body they were Lametti said, “As to minors, ity” being a bill outlawing forcibly confined, and tor- Government that conver- born in. we are criminalizing this conversion therapy while tured by churches and psy- sion therapy can have no Bill C-8 creates a one-way street. Helping a confused across the board.” But he Canadians are grappling chotherapists who prac- place in the province’s boy to accept his gender becomes criminal. But caus- also said the additional with the coronavirus pan- tice ‘conversion’ therapy. public health-care system.” ing a boy to feel uncomfortable about being a boy, and measures would criminal- demic. And this is a lie.” Fonseca In 2018, Nova Scotia’s suggesting to youngsters that “there is no such thing as ize “coerced” conversion Pro-family advocates, explained that conversion Liberal government banned boys and girls,” and convincing a girl that she is actually therapy and activities relat- many who have been therapy is “loving, standard conversion therapy with a boy trapped in a girl’s body, all remain perfectly legal. ed to providing the ther- the unanimous support of Activists who have so shrewdly infiltrated our public apy for adults, effectively the opposition parties for (and religious) schools have nothing to fear from C-8; banning it completely. the Sexual Orientation and they can continue sexualizing our children and promot- Lametti admitted the Gender Identity Protection ing transgender ideology to vulnerable youth. political nature of the bill, Conservative MP Derek Sloan Act, which is similar to the Bill C-8 also imposes this hypocrisy with regard to saying it provides a “bal- Ontario law. In 2019, the sexual orientation. C-8 ignores the reality of people who ance between progressive Progressive Conservative testify publicly about having personally experienced policies and constitution- called Trudeau government’s government in Prince changes in their sexual orientation, for which they are al (rights).” He boasted Edward Island also passed grateful. Trudeau Senior said “there’s no place for the that if Bill C-8 is passed, unanimously legislation state in the bedrooms of the nation,” but Trudeau Junior “Canada’s law will be the C-8 ‘madness’ banning conversion thera- is now inviting the state into the offices of all doctors, most progressive and com- py, the Sexual Orientation counsellors and clergy. prehensive in the world.” and Gender Identity Bill C-8 makes it illegal to “cause” a person under But the Justice Minister Protection in Health Care the age of 18 to undergo “conversion therapy,” which dismissed concerns about Act.

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