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06 Jun 2017 LN Feature: It’s Andrew Scheer – Now What?

- Scott Hayward, co-founder of Right Now Mike Schouten, Director of Advocacy On the feature this week, two interviews about the election of Mr. Andrew Scheer as Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Scheer won the post at a leadership convention in Toronto on May 27th - in a preferential ballot that went to 13 counts. In the end, he beat out Quebec libertarian candidate Maxime Bernier. Scheer got just under 51% of the points in the Party's riding by riding distribution system; Bernier ended up with just over 49%. Since the win, Scheer...

02 May 2017 LN Feature: Leadership Debate

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Conservative Leadership candidate, Pierre Lemieux Conservative Leadership candidate, Brad Trost LN: This is not meant so much to be a "debate" between the three of you as it is an opportunity for each of you to address a primarily social conservative audience one last time before these people fill out their ballots. I'm going to be asking each of you one question to lead off; a different question for each of you. In each instance the focus of the question will be designed to allow you to address a perceived weakness in your...

04 Apr 2017 Conservative leadership candidates talk pre-born human rights

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Conservative leadership candidate, Rick Peterson Life issues have hit the radar in the federal Conservative Party leadership race again, and this time, from an unusual source. Candidate Rick Peterson, who has clearly identified himself as pro-choice, sent out an email this week expressly courting pro-life voters. We Need a Law's Mike Schouten says the content was a surprise. “I think what was most surprising was that he said ‘In line with the Party platform, I will support and prioritize comprehensive legislation making it criminal to use abortion as a means to discriminate...

28 Mar 2017 Kenney wins Alberta PC leadership

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Jason Kenney, leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta There’s considerable optimism among social conservatives in Alberta right now. Earlier this month, former federal Member of Parliament Jason Kenney was elected the new leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative party. He ran on a platform of "uniting the right" – bringing the Alberta PC's and the Wildrose Party back into a single organization to campaign against the NDP in that province’s next election. Kenney won the leadership at a delegated convention, garnering about 75% of the vote on the first...

14 Mar 2017 Oosterhoff wins again

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MPP Sam Oosterhoff The youngest MPP in Ontario history will be running again. Sam Oosterhoff won a nomination race in the newly formed Niagara West riding last week. He was challenged in the contest by someone who ran against him in the nomination for a by-election in his current riding late last year. “One of the challengers from that nomination… said he had concerns about my faith; that I came from a very insular group within the riding,” Oosterhoff says. “But there were a lot of great people who came out,...

14 Mar 2017 LN Feature: Electing People of Character

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Doug Sharpe, President of the Canada Family Action Council On the feature this week, a conversation with Doug Sharpe, the president of the Canada Family Action Council. We interviewed Doug after he spoke at an event in Victoria, sponsored by Freedom Defence Canada. LN: The Canada Family Action Council has evolved somewhat since the days when it was organizing the "Defend Marriage" rallies during the debate over gay marriage. I've heard you speak publicly, and you talk about "a different approach" and the notion that continuing to do things the way we've...

07 Mar 2017 Time for the Opposition to do its job on Bill 89

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John Diefenbaker One talking point we’ve heard regarding the Liberal government’s Bill 89 – from the Opposition – is that it’s hard to oppose a bill that is all about protecting children. But the Opposition’s job is not to use the good in government bills as an excuse for failing to scrutinize and oppose the bad parts. The Opposition’s job is to oppose. Constructively, yes, but oppose nonetheless. As John Diefenbaker, our 13th Prime Minister, said, If Parliament is to be preserved as a living institution, his Majesty's Loyal Opposition...

28 Feb 2017 CPC Leadership Update

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The 14 candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada continue to make the rounds, trying to round up votes. We Need a Law director Mike Schouten attended a debate among 12 of those candidates in Langley, BC earlier this month. It was held in a greenhouse that had been converted, essentially, into a theatre. Schouten says only one candidate, Pierre Lemieux, brought up the issue of pre-born human rights. The other candidates, Schouten says, “didn’t bite” on the issue, largely because they had a good sense that...

21 Feb 2017 Bigotry in the Senate?

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Senator Marilou McPhedran Senator Don Plett Senate Speaker George Furey There was an emotional debate in the Senate last week about language and choice of words. On the feature this week, we present an edited version of that debate, which started when Manitoba Senator Don Plett rose on a point of order. ---- Senator Plett: Yesterday in this chamber, a senator in her maiden speech, her first speech in the Senate, accused me of bigotry… To attribute such a serious charge as bigotry to the phrase "these people" is preposterous, and I will read what I...

21 Feb 2017 Tax Breaks for Independent Schools

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One of the candidates for the leadership of the federal Conservative Party is proposing tax breaks for families who educate their children outside of the public school system. Andrew Scheer unveiled a policy position last week, promising tuition tax credits of up to four thousand dollars per child for families who have children in independent schools, and one thousand dollars per child for home-schooling families. Scheer says this is a logical extension of existing federal policy which provides some tax relief to parents who pay post-secondary education tuition for their...

Politics

06 Jun 2017 LN Feature: It’s Andrew Scheer – Now What?

02 May 2017 LN Feature: Leadership Debate

04 Apr 2017 Conservative leadership candidates talk pre-born human rights

28 Mar 2017 Kenney wins Alberta PC leadership

14 Mar 2017 Oosterhoff wins again

14 Mar 2017 LN Feature: Electing People of Character

07 Mar 2017 Time for the Opposition to do its job on Bill 89

28 Feb 2017 CPC Leadership Update

21 Feb 2017 Bigotry in the Senate?

21 Feb 2017 Tax Breaks for Independent Schools

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