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On Monday, I was in Toronto to attend the funeral of Jim Hughes, the renowned Canadian pro-life leader, president of Campaign Life Coalition for over 30 years and vice-president of the International Right to Life Federation. It was Jim Hughes who, in the late 1980s, asked Gilles Grondin, founding president of Quebec Life Coalition (Campagne Québec-Vie), to establish a Quebec pro-life movement.

Nearly 40 years later, I was attending the burial of this man of titanic stature, in a Toronto cemetery, alongside hundreds of pro-lifers who had come from across the country to bid him a final farewell.

Death has the power to make us cast a critical eye on the course of our life and the choices that have marked it. I find these moments precious, because we often need to look within ourselves to ask whether our path reflects the will of God rather than the fantasies of our pride.

This email marks the launch of an early-summer fundraising campaign with a goal of $20,000. Thanks to your support, we will be able to continue working in the spirit of the faithful pro-lifers who came before us. Please give today >>

Nearly 18 years ago, I was a doctoral student at McGill when I saw the consequences of abortion on the broken bodies of unborn children. It was at that time that I left academia (I was then a "perpetual student") to devote myself full-time to Quebec Life Coalition, to fight abortion and to promote a culture of Life in Quebec and in Canada.

Very quickly, I came to see--a realization shared by my predecessors Jim Hughes, Gilles Grondin and many others-- that abortion was only one of the heads of the hideous hydra attacking our families and societies the world over: the rejection of God.

Quebec Life Coalition then took up the defence of human life, from conception to natural death, as well as of the family, all within a vision of re-Christianizing society. Because, in the end, only a society founded on God and on His will can endure and flourish.

This road of ours is not the easy path that the world applauds and encourages. Quite the opposite. Everything around us pushes us to water down our message or, worse, to conceal parts of it altogether. Many of our contemporaries refuse to see that certain problems they rightly denounce are nothing but the consequences of the choices they themselves have made or endorsed. Many want to improve society, but if doing so comes at the cost of their own ideas, or worse, their pleasures or comforts, that is another story.

Quebec Life Coalition then makes the difficult choice: to refuse fashionable ideologies, to refuse both the socialist and atheist left and the libertarian right, both too often indifferent to what is true and good, and to choose to look upward. We do this through our prayer vigils, now illegal in Quebec except in certain cases (I will return to this in a coming email), through our Marches for Life, through events such as Génération Vie, through our media work, and through our assistance to women facing difficult pregnancies, Pregnant and Worried.

And all of this, we do with you, who give us the material and spiritual support that is essential to the continuation of this adventure that is Quebec Life Coalition. And it is this work, begun by Jim Hughes and Gilles Grondin, that rests today in our hands, and in yours.

With this email we are launching our fundraising campaign for the approach to summer 2026. Our goal is $20,000. We are counting on you, who are reading these lines. No one else will take your place in this task. Thank you for walking with us on this difficult road, yet one so rich in rewards: the road of God's will, of the promotion of faith, family, and life, from conception to natural death.

Please give generously, sacrificially, today, and so give a strong kick-off to our campaign. We need your support.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi
President of Quebec Life Coalition

p.s. These past months have been very intense. I will have much to share with you in the coming days about what we have accomplished together, and about what remains to be done. In the meantime, please consider giving today so we have the means, day by day, to carry out our work of restoring Quebec.

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