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Quebec has elected a minority PQ government: 59 seats out of 127. The CAQ, so pro-abortion, has vanished from the political landscape. And 19 Conservatives are making their debut in the National Assembly; The Devoir calls it a return after a 91-year absence, the first such occurrence since 1935.

For faith, family, and life, from conception to natural death, what does this change? More than one in five votes went to the Conservatives: the ideas this party espouses are therefore no longer taboo. But let’s be clear: in September, Éric Duhaime pointed out, according to Noovo, that his party is “a pro-choice party.” We’ll need to talk to those 19 members of the National Assembly.

What do we hope for? That the parties will cooperate for the common good. On the birth rate, this is possible: during the campaign, Christine Fréchette (CAQ) already saw common ground between the PQ and the Conservatives. Ruba Gahzal (QS) even denounced a complicity between the two leaders on certain issues. So much the better! Let’s help families, including stay-at-home moms.

Both leaders have already spoken out against teaching gender ideology in schools, or at least expressed some reservations, so can we expect them to take action in this regard?

There is concern that, in order to pass its bills, for which it needs at least five additional votes, the PQ will seek support from Québec solidaire, which holds nine seats. According to Le Devoir, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is counting on this pro-independence majority to advance his vision for the country. However, QS’s platform promises to guarantee access to abortion and to promote “gender-affirming care.” That is the potential price of a referendum.

This is the weak point of the pro-independence movement: the temptation to turn independence into an idol to which everything is sacrificed. PSPP said it last year: “The life of a people must have meaning.” Which is true. But on Monday evening, he asserted that the struggle of Francophones “will find meaning” with the country. The Gospel, for its part, asks: “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?” What good would it do for Quebec to gain a country, if it were to lose its soul?

Euthanasia

The federal government has announced that it will extend indefinitely the ban on euthanasia based solely on mental illness—it remains to be seen whether it will keep its word—but, unfortunately, it will legalize advance requests for euthanasia for neurocognitive diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Such requests had already been approved by the Quebec government but were remaining illegal in Canada.

Life Chain

This year, we successfully held nearly thirty Life Chain events in Quebec last Sunday, that many locations where pro-life advocates gave testimony in support of the unborn child to passersby. The Life Chain generally takes place without incident; some drivers honk their horns in a sign of support, while others express their disagreement. More rarely, a few pedestrians speak to us.

This year, the Collectif Riposte Féministe organized a hostile counter-protest against the Life Chain on Laurier Boulevard in Quebec City. Respect is not a strong trait among pro-abortion protesters, who, true to their disreputable habits, mingled with the dozen or so peaceful pro-life activists, shouting slogans and playing loud music. Not content with intimidating the pro-life demonstrators, the approximately 150-200 pro-abortion demonstrators, according to the account of one of the participants in the chain, also snatched several signs from the hands of the pro-life demonstrators, tore them up, and trampled on them. On top of that, the pro-abortion demonstrators blocked the street. The behavior of these individuals (among whom Antifa symbols were visible) required police intervention.

Radio-Canada’s report on the events was extremely downplaying and disjointed; at most, they mentioned that the pro-abortion demonstrators blocked the street...

But such methods will not discourage us; we will continue to stand up for the unborn child.

For Life,
The Quebec Life Coalition's team

Yesterday afternoon, in some 30 places across Quebec, ordinary people stood on the sidewalk for one hour, holding a sign and praying in silence for children killed by abortion.

Lévis, at the corner of Président-Kennedy and Guillaume-Couture.

In Drummondville, participants ranged in age from 10 to 80. In Montreal's Saint-Michel district, ten people held the corner of Saint-Michel and Crémazie: a few drivers made rude gestures, and others stopped to thank them. In Lachute, the organizers wrote to say it was "a successful Life Chain." In Quebec City, a pro-choice counter-protest set up nearby with loud music and slogans. Our people stayed silent.


Drummondville, rue Lindsay.

Thousands of drivers went past. For many of them, it was the only moment this year when they saw someone say publicly that the unborn child is one of us. Among them, perhaps, was a pregnant woman who felt alone, or someone carrying the weight of a past abortion.

To everyone who stood on a corner yesterday, and to everyone who prayed for this day from home: thank you.

Lachute.

Our fall campaign: $981 from the goal

When I launched our fall campaign, I set an ambitious goal: $25,000. I'm happy to report that we have reached $24,019.

If you are among those who gave, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Your gifts carried this fall's work:

• the signs, maps and mailings behind Life Chain;
• our election tool and voter guide (more on that below);
• our helpline, Enceinte et Inquiète (Pregnant and Worried), which has helped about 100 people a year since 2012.

Because we are so close, I've decided to keep our donation page open until the end of this week.

I know some of you meant to give and couldn't before the campaign closed. Maybe you were travelling, caring for grandchildren, or only opened my email afterwards.

Will you help us close the last $981 with a gift of $25, $50, $100, or whatever you can spare ?

Lévis.

Today, Quebec votes

This fall, we published an election guide showing where the parties stand on life, family, faith and freedom. We also built a tool that lets any voter put our questions to every candidate in their riding. More than 320 people used it, and over 1,250 letters reached candidates in 109 of Quebec's 125 ridings.

Now the decision belongs to the voters, and, ultimately, to God.

Wherever you live, in Quebec or elsewhere, please pray today that the outcome of this election be according to God's will.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition (Campagne Québec-Vie)

P.S. If you'd rather not give online, you can mail a cheque to Quebec Life Coalition, C.P. 55053 Comptoir postal Maisonneuve, Montréal, QC H1W 0A1, or call us toll-free at 1-855-996-2686.

Several media articles have appeared regarding a truck from the Canadian Center for Bioethics Reform displaying pictures of aborted babies and driving through the streets of Montreal. Several pro-abortion activist groups, complacently covered by the media, have, of course, denounced the initiative, calling it “disturbing” and “misinformation.”

Disturbing, certainly, but is it misinformation? Nothing is more true than a corpse... And it is precisely because the images of aborted babies are undeniably true and show abortion in all its horror that pro-abortion activists are concerned about the awareness this might raise among certain people.

Thus, the FQPN and the Montreal Women’s Health Center have written to the mayor of Montreal asking the city to enact regulations limiting the public display of such images.

We’ve reached the final day of our fall fundraising campaign, and thanks to donations from our supporters, we’ve raised $12,563 of our $25,000 goal. A huge thank you to our donors! Will you help us raise the remaining $12,437?

Life Chain

Next Sunday, October 4th, the annual Life Chain will take place — a one-hour public demonstration in support of the unborn child. Several events are being held across Quebec; for more information, visit the Quebec Chain website.

Voter’s Guide

October 5th is Quebec election day. We have made a guide available to voters outlining the parties’ positions on provincial issues, such as parental rights regarding their children’s education. View the guide here.

40 Days for Life

Finally, let’s not forget Quebec’s 40 Days for Life, which is currently underway in Sherbrooke. This vigil aims to raise public awareness about the dignity of unborn human life and to offer support to women considering abortion. For more information, contact Brian Jenkins at (438) 930-8643 or email [email protected]

This week, leaders from the National Coalition for Life and Campagne Québec-Vie are meeting to strengthen the ties between the two organizations in order to increase the pro-life impact in Quebec. Please pray for the success of our discussions.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

P.S. Please give generously so that we can continue our work in service of a culture of Life and Truth in Quebec!

Blog post by Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) — Photo: Renouveau du Québec/Instagram

The Renouveau du Québec initiative, which was launched in spring, has recently surpassed the symbolic milestone of 100 days and will soon reach 200 days. Set to last a total of 1,000 days, the initiative invites people of all ages to pray the rosary daily and gather every Tuesday to recite the Marian prayer.

According to the Diocese of Montreal’s website, the initiative was launched by Cyril Azzi, who felt called to start a prayer movement for the renewal of faith in Québec: 

"During Holy Week, I was in Abitibi-Témiscamingue for a temporary job. It was during the Easter Vigil, at the Mass celebrated at Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Rouyn-Noranda, that I felt a strong calling in my heart to undertake this initiative and dedicate it to the renewal of faith in Québec."

This past March, someone we do not know filed an access-to-information request with Santé Québec, the agency that now runs Quebec's public health network. The request asked every regional health authority for its internal rules on abortion. The answers are now public. We have seen them.

What struck me most is not what they reveal about this deadly procedure. It is the banality with which they treat it.

The suction cannulas are numbered

At a CLSC (local community health centre) in east-end Montreal, the suction cannulas are numbered. The number, the manual notes, corresponds roughly to the number of weeks of pregnancy.

At the end, the doctor examines "the products." They are sent for incineration.

Will you stand with us today, with a gift and with your prayers?

Only 5 days left, and over $15,000 still to go to reach our $25,000 fall goal. Our campaign closes Thursday, October 1.

In the new nurse's reading list, the legal framework fits in one line: abortion is "free and legal throughout the pregnancy." Further down, among the general trainings, is a five-minute capsule on "kindness toward children."

In the same package, from the same health authority, is the nurses' checklist for when a baby dies before or at birth. Check the baby's first and last name with the parents. Offer the memory box. Explain the burial options. Tell them about the annual angels' ceremony in June. From 19 weeks, tell the mother she is entitled to parental benefits.

In one file, a wanted child with a name. In the other, the unwanted child, who is reduced to "products."

"Population: adolescents"

The health authority for downtown Montreal released a procedure, in force since February 2024, for third-trimester abortions on girls under 18. The girl is admitted to the birthing unit of Sainte-Justine, Montreal's children's hospital. That morning, in the document's words, "the feticide is performed with xylocaine and KCl" (potassium chloride). Then labour is induced. If needed, staff sign a maternity-leave certificate. A follow-up visit is booked "routinely," six to eight weeks later.

The designated contact works at the hospital's clinic for teenage mothers and young children.

The same authority reported 655 patients in 2025-2026 for abortions committed at 14 weeks or later. Asked for its own internal policies on abortion, it answered that none exist.

In the Eastern Townships, the Sherbrooke facility takes pregnancies "at all stages." Its pharmacy order sheet is titled "voluntary termination of pregnancy up to 23 weeks." Asked how many abortions it commits after 12 weeks, the health authority said its systems cannot tell without opening every patient's file.

A standing order from the same region, adopted in 2009 and never revised, says that once the misoprostol is inserted, "the user cannot change her decision, because this drug can cause malformations in the fetus."

And a West-Island, Montreal "health centre" that commits abortions tells women on its website: "Out of respect for our clientele, do not bring children with you."

By Jean-Léon Laffitte (Association des parents Catholiques du Québec) — Photo (montage): presfoto/Freepik

Here is a book that could be summarized in a few words: the deliberate oversimplification of the victimhood narrative. The author, Francis Dupuis-Déri, is presented as a professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, specialising in social movements. His book exclusively examines certain issues from this perspective. One could acknowledge a certain honesty in not straying beyond the scope of his expertise. However, precisely because the issue falls outside his area of expertise, the book completely misses the questions raised by gender ideology. In fact, these issues have been erased, as if they did not exist. Thus, on the back cover, the author presents the school as a battlefield: that of a “cultural” war. Which it absolutely is not.

Above all, it must be remembered that gender ideology, which is at the center of a genuine philosophical and scientific battle, is nothing more than unfounded sociological theories that are debated even among sociologists themselves. Yet these theories have been imposed on all students in Quebec schools, without exception. The first victims of this ideology , developed by charlatans like Dr. Money, were enlisted from early childhood and ended their lives by suicide. This fact never caused these ideologues to question the value of their theories, which were disproven from the very beginning!

Gender ideology is based on absurdities and can only be imposed by force and confusion. Force is used through laws, and confusion is created through definitions that cannot explain what a woman or gender is. This confusion is desired in order to prevent debates and logic from clarifying the supreme fraud of these ideologies. Like the child in The Emperor’s New Clothes, who reveals what everyone is thinking, we state what everyone knows but dares not say: gender ideology has no foundation.

To say it's been a busy fall would be an understatement:

• We've continued running our Enceinte et inquiète ("Pregnant, Need Help") hotline and website, helping on average one or two mothers (of born or unborn children) per week find housing and services (medical, legal, etc.) as they await the birth of a child (more on this in a future email);
• We've developed a candidate questionnaire tool for use by our Quebec readers, to question their local candidates ahead of the Quebec election on October 5;
• We've created an election guide for the same election;
• We've just closed out a year of social media publications using our new "meme" and photo-and-video-centred approach, which has reached about one-third of all Quebecers and yielded about 2 million views per month and 500 comments a day;
• We've continued running our Vigil 365, a perpetual vigil outside of abortion facilities in downtown Montreal, for one or two hours a day, 365 days a year;
• We've continued our weekly parish visits, which over the last year have allowed us to speak to over 40 parishes, mostly in the Montreal area, and therefore to hundreds if not thousands of people about faith, family and the defence of life, from conception to natural death;
• We've continued recruiting and planning the Life Chain event, which is to take place on October 4.

We are in the tail end of our fall 2026 fundraiser. None of the activities above would have been possible without sustained financial support from people just like you. Please prayerfully consider giving today.

But in the midst of this whirlwind of activity, one thing remains in the centre, as a calm, steady beating heart: prayer.

Without the stillness and focus of prayer, which allows us to centre our unsteady and fragile wills on God's, we would have dissolved a long time ago, and especially in the tumult of this busy fall. But here we are, thanks to the patience and grace of God.

And there is nothing that exemplifies our dependence on God's grace more than our participation in the twice-yearly 40 Days for Life vigil. This year, in Quebec, our vigil — which officially begins today — takes place in the city of Sherbrooke. (For information about exact location and times, call Brian Jenkins at 438-930-8643.)

If something isn’t on social media, it no longer exists in the public discourse. That’s where people get their news, form their opinions, and decide what’s normal or scandalous. That’s why, a year ago, we changed the way we post on Facebook, with one goal in mind: to reach those who weren’t looking for us.

The result: In one year, our posts reached the equivalent of one in three Quebecers — an audience of 4,069,903 people, 80% of whom are Quebecers.

We’ve achieved vastly better results thanks to a deeper understanding of the changes made to the virtual platform. In the past, simply sharing a link to an article was enough to reach a wide audience — a method that Facebook now discourages. Today, we have to put more effort into presenting the message, and it’s paying off!

Please give generously today to help us spread the pro-life message throughout Quebec. The goal of our fall fundraising campaign is $25,000; any donation will be greatly appreciated.

The approximately 602 posts we published over the course of a year generated 582,100 reactions, comments, and shares, demonstrating the importance of the topics covered and the interest they generate. Is the debate over in Quebec? Far from it!

And our goal is precisely to stimulate debate on issues related to the protection of the unborn, vulnerable people, and the family, in areas where the media and state-funded activists seek to silence discussion.

However, we do not receive any government subsidies — neither from Ottawa nor from Quebec — and the only subsidies we receive are the donations you give us.

As you can see, the issue of education and family — particularly as it relates to gender ideology — generates a lot of engagement. The topic of demographics, which falls under this category, is a highly sensitive issue in Quebec, which has a long history of survival in the face of adversity; indeed, demographics are essential to the survival of a people.

You may also have noticed that the graph forms a curve that peaks in March and is currently on a downward trend, where we actually stand. We hope to turn this curve around by redoubling our efforts, because, far more than just numbers, this is about saving unborn children, protecting vulnerable people from euthanasia, and shielding children from the harmful effects of gender ideology.

The most popular post on the QLC (CQV) page this year has been viewed more than 1.5 million times:

We are fighting the same battle, and I thank you immensely for all the support you provide us,

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

P.S. We are a small team working on a colossal task; publishing news relevant to the growth of a culture of life requires constant vigilance, and it is thanks to the resources you provide us that we will be able to carry it out successfully.

Whether you read this from inside or outside Quebec, the current Quebec provincial election should matter to any Canadian.

We've said it many times: what happens in Quebec rarely stays in Quebec, but spreads throughout the nation — for good or for ill. And unfortunately, for the last few decades, it's been for ill.

Whether it's Quebec-born Pierre Elliott Trudeau legalizing abortion in 1969, or his son Justin forcing Liberal Party MPs to toe the pro-abortion, pro-LGBT line, whether it's euthanasia being enacted in Quebec first, on December 10, 2015, or Morgentaler opening his "clinics" (abortion facilities) in Montreal before anyone else in Canada, the culture in Quebec has been toxic to the rest of Canada for too long.

And we at Quebec Life Coalition (QLC) aim to change this, once and for all. Quebec can and will be a force for good in this country, with your help.

We are one week into our fall 2026 fundraiser. These fundraisers are essential to our ongoing work defending faith, family and life, from conception to natural death. Our objective for this campaign is a challenging $25,000. But we know our readers understand the stakes and can rise to this challenge. So far, we've received about $2,140. That's not quite 10% of our goal.

Please give generously today to help us reach our goal and help Quebec.

We are in the midst of our fall fundraising campaign. What follows is why we need your support in Quebec to fight for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death.

Dear friend,

Two things happened in Quebec this week that shows what we are fighting against at Quebec Life Coalition.

A school that chose the faith over money

Loyola High School has stood in Montreal since 1896. Under Bill 9, the secularism law adopted in Quebec on April 2, 2026, Loyola can keep its provincial funding on one condition: that it stop being Catholic in any way that counts. Religious instruction could no longer aim at handing on the faith. Prayer, retreats and Mass would have to be optional, and held outside school hours.

Loyola said no. It is giving up $7,500 per student. Tuition will climb from roughly $12,530 to somewhere between $20,000 and $21,000 a year. A school with no scandal, no crisis, and applications at a historic high is being priced out of its own identity. The story is here.

That is what it looks like when faith is pushed out of the public square.

A candidate erased in a single day

Éric Lanthier, a pastor, was running as a candidate for the Conservative party of Quebec in Pontiac. On September 9 the Journal de Montréal described him as anti-abortion and "homophobic". The evidence against him: an article he wrote in 2015, published on our own website, arguing that "my body, my choice" is not a rational argument, and a post in which he said he was privileged to open the March for Life in Ottawa in 2019.

Within hours he withdrew, so as not to be, in his leader's phrase, a distraction. The media reported the speed of it with evident satisfaction. He is the first candidate of this election campaign to fall, and he fell for holding convictions that millions of Canadians hold quietly, at their kitchen tables, where nobody can photograph them. The story is here.

Our fall campaign is under way, and it is what pays for the work described in this letter. If what you are reading matters to you, please give at en.cqv.qc.ca/donate. Our goal is 25,000$ and we are only 3 weeks away from our deadline.

Why this should worry you wherever you live

Quebec is not a curiosity off to one side. What is settled in Quebec travels. Henry Morgentaler opened his first abortion facility in Montreal, and it was in Quebec that the law was first made unenforceable, before the rest of the country followed. Quebec legalized euthanasia in 2014, two years ahead of Ottawa, and has been widening it ever since. Two prime ministers (Trudeaus Sr. and Jr.) formed by this province, father and son, did the rest: one opened the door to abortion in 1969, the other shut his party's door on anyone who defends the child in the womb.

If the culture of death is not resisted in Quebec, it is not resisted in Canada. That is the plain truth of the last sixty years, and it is why this letter is addressed to you whether you live in Quebec or a thousand miles from it.

And yet Goliath sometimes loses

On July 31, the Superior Court of Quebec ordered former Tourism minister Caroline Proulx to pay more than $60,000, including $30,000 in punitive damages she must cover personally, for having ordered the cancellation of a Christian rally at the Quebec City Convention Centre in 2023 because the organizers were pro-life. The judge found she had acted arbitrarily and abusively, and that she had struck at freedom of expression itself. La Presse reported it here.

A minister used the power of her office to silence pro-lifers. Three years later a court told her plainly that the office gave her no such power. Someone had to be willing to bring that case, and to carry it for three years.

I bring up this case because it shows the power of tenacity, in the face of a culture of death.

What your gift pays for

Quebec Life Coalition keeps prayer and action together, as they should be. The vigil on the sidewalk. Help for women who are pregnant and frightened. The tool that has already put letters from ordinary people into the hands of candidates across most of Quebec's electoral divisions. The election guide. The daily reporting that tells people what actually happened, in a province where almost nobody else will. And lawyers, when the moment calls for them.

We are small. What we are facing is not. In close to 40 years (QLC was founded in 1989) that has never once been a reason to stop.

Our fall campaign runs to September 30. The goal is $25,000. Together we can do this, and we are asking you for your part of it today.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition

P.S. $25,000 by September 30. Help us stand against the Goliath of the Culture of death in Quebec. Give today.