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Blog post by Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) — Translated by QLC — Photo: zinkevych/Freepik

Rose, now 21, has had a difficult journey. During her childhood, she suffered several traumatic experiences and was bullied at school. She says that these struggles led her to want to dissociate herself from the person she was, to leave behind the Rose who was suffering so much. She even attempted suicide twice.

At one point, she discovered people online who identified as transgender and had undergone or were undergoing the transition process. After seeing numerous posts by these people and contacting them, she became convinced that transitioning was the solution to her problems. When she told her mother that she believed she was a boy, her mother didn’t think she was serious. Throughout her daughter’s transition, she feared that she was mistaken and would come to regret it.

Faced with her daughter’s determination to transition, Danielle, her mother, sought advice from the Meraki Clinic (which specialises in gender transition) to understand what her daughter was going through, fearing that her distress might lead her to attempt suicide again. After two visits, the clinic prescribed puberty blockers, convincing Danielle that this would give her daughter a ‘break’ to reflect — without mentioning any potential side effects.

Blog post by Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) — Translated by QLC — Photo: Freepik

A young woman who underwent a transition process between the ages of 13 and 17 laments that the healthcare system which supported her during the transition is now abandoning her as she seeks to detransition, according to Le Journal de Montréal:

“I was supported during my transition to become a boy when I was aged 13 to 17,” says Rose Guérin. “But now, suddenly, there are no more services for me.”

The young woman, now 21, underwent a double mastectomy at 16, but at 17, just before what the Le Journal de Montréal article refers to “the big operation” (presumably a hysterectomy), she changed her mind:

“I burst into tears and called my mum to tell her that I wasn’t a boy; I’d just always been a girl who felt very uncomfortable in her own skin.”

Fortunately, she, who dreams of having children, was able to regain her fertility after stopping her transition treatments. However, she will not be able to breastfeed:

“I have a flat chest with two large scars and I will never be able to breastfeed. However, by stopping the hormones, I have become fertile again.”

John Cleese.

Blog post by Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) — Translated by QLC — Photo: Paul Boxley/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons

The famous British Monty Python actor and comedian, John Cleese, has cancelled his visit to British Columbia, which was scheduled to take place as part of his Canadian tour in the autumn.

His reason? He is undoubtedly afraid of being sued for making jokes about gender ideology.

In response to the news of the British Columbia school board member convicted for criticising gender ideology, John Cleese wrote on X:

“What a pity !

I'm arranging a theatrical tour of Canada this Fall, and now I won't be able to risk doing any shows in British Columbia

I was really looking forward to coming.”

School board trustee Barry Neufeld was fined $750,000 by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for ‘hate speech’ targeting transgender people. The Tribunal found that at least 24 of Mr Neufeld’s posts on transgender issues were hateful and discriminatory. He was also found to have denied the reality of gender and incited hatred towards transgender people by denying that gender was a real thing.

In his role as a school board trustee, Mr Neufeld was striving to protect pupils from gender ideology, particularly as taught in the SOGI 123 programme.

The problem with this ruling is this: can we still criticise a group’s ideology if such criticism might expose its reprehensible aspects?

Meanwhile, Canada is not looking good when it comes to freedom of expression.

From left to right: Georges Buscemi of Quebec Life Coalition, Jack Fonseca, Josie Luetke, Pete Baklinski, and Brandan Tran of Campaign Life Coalition, and Aleš Primc of the Movement for Children & Families.

Georges Buscemi, President of Campagne Québec‑Vie — English reference version

Ladies and gentlemen, good day.

My name is Georges Buscemi. I am the president of Campagne Québec‑Vie.

In 2025, Quebec officially became the world champion of euthanasia. 6,268 Quebecers died by "medical assistance in dying" last year — 7.9% of all our deaths. Thirty‑six percent of all MAiD deaths in Canada take place in our province, even though we make up only twenty‑two percent of the Canadian population. And in March 2027, this "assistance" will be extended to people suffering solely from mental illness.

How did we get here?

Let me first recall two Quebec voices — voices that are not my own. Denise Bombardier, shortly before her death, was struck by the fact that the only political consensus that ever forms in Quebec forms around a law about death, and she put the question bluntly: "Is the weight of a culture of death pressing down on us?" Patrick Lagacé, writing in La Presse this past April, stated in black and white that Quebec is the "world champion" of MAiD, and he called this "a blind spot" that must be confronted.

Why us, and not the others?

In 2010, I submitted to the Quebec government's Special Commission on the Question of Dying with Dignity a brief titled A False Freedom: 50 Years of Euthanasia in Quebec. In it, I predicted a scenario: institutionalized despair, a vicious cycle, a society that would end up eliminating poverty by eliminating the poor, and illness by eliminating the sick. I was called an alarmist. Fifteen years later, I'll let you judge for yourselves.

Hundreds of Canadians and Quebecers demonstrated outside 44 constituency offices of Liberal MPs to protest Bill C-9, which will soon go to the Senate for its final reading.

In Nepean, Ottawa.

In Quebec.

Bill C-9 threatens freedom of expression, particularly by criminalizing “hate” — a term it defines rather vaguely — and by removing the “good faith” religious defense from the Criminal Code regarding hate speech. The Liberals make no secret of it: for Minister Marc Miller, the Bible contains “hateful” passages regarding homosexuality, and quoting them would, in his view, be grounds for prosecution.

On May 12th, Georges Buscemi, president of Quebec Life Coalition, will participate in a press conference with our counterparts from English Canada to address issues surrounding the culture of life in Quebec and Canada.

At the Rose Dinner following the National March for Life in Ottawa on May 14th, Mr. Buscemi will serve as master of ceremonies for this year’s banquet.

QLC will have an exhibit table at the Pro-Life Expo on May 14th from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM and from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM, and on May 15th from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, at the Ottawa Conference & Events Centre, 200 Coventry Road.

QLC is also organizing a bus departing from Montreal for the National March for Life in Ottawa (see the announcement below the text)

QLC's voice is being heard like never before

In eight months, the monthly reach of our Facebook page has been multiplied by 24: from 55,000 people reached per month in summer 2025 to 1.31 million per month in March-April 2026. In total, since September 1, 2025, our posts have reached 10.7 million people and generated 17.4 million views, with 45,000 shares and twenty-six posts individually surpassing the 100,000-reach threshold. Since our content is entirely in French, the overwhelming majority of this audience is in Quebec, a province whose Facebook population stands at roughly 2.4 million users.

Statistics for the QLC (CQV) Facebook page from September 1st, 2025, to May 6th, 2026.

The topics that resonate most strongly are precisely those that mainstream media sidestep: detransition testimonies, the drift of euthanasia, demographic collapse, defense of Christian heritage, freedom of conscience. While public commentators are finally beginning to speak about natality and family, the voice of Quebec Life Coalition is reaching hundreds of thousands of ordinary Quebecers every week. We have written a full analysis of this progression and of what it means for public debate, just months from the provincial election.

Read the full article here.

We will, of course, continue more than ever to promote a culture of life on social media, and we invite you to follow us on our Facebook page to help us spread our message.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

By Quebec Life Coalition – Photo : katemangostar/Freepik

In early September 2025, Campagne Québec-Vie (Quebec Life Coalition) thoroughly revised its Facebook strategy. Eight months in, the results are not merely encouraging: they are, to our knowledge, unprecedented for a pro-life and pro-family organization in Quebec.

The real starting point

To properly grasp the leap, one has to look at what came before. From May 7 to August 31, 2025, in the four months preceding our change of approach, our Facebook page reached an average of 55,000 people per month. A single post had crossed the 100,000-reach threshold during that period. We were publishing roughly 14 times per month.

Statistics for the CQV Facebook page from September 1, 2025, to May 6, 2026.

What happened next

From September 1, 2025 to May 6, 2026, our posts reached 10.7 million people and generated 17.4 million views. Users reacted 245,000 times, left 114,000 comments, and shared our content close to 45,000 times. Twenty-six individual posts crossed the 100,000-reach threshold; forty-nine crossed 50,000.

On a monthly basis, our reach went from 55,000 to 1.31 million people per month. That is a 24-fold increase. Average reach per post has sextupled. Shares per post have quadrupled.

This result is not the product of higher advertising spending. The growth is essentially organic: it comes from shares, comments, and the resonance our message finds among Quebecers who, for the most part, are not already on our side.

Putting the numbers in context

Facebook has roughly 2.4 million monthly users in Quebec, a province of 8.7 million inhabitants. Since our content is entirely in French and 80% of our audience is located in Canada, the overwhelming majority of this reach is necessarily concentrated in Quebec. At the levels we are now operating at, our posts are no longer reaching only our supporters: they are showing up in the news feeds of ordinary Quebecers, across every milieu, week after week.

We held our very first Génération Vie congress last Saturday in Montreal, an event we hope will be the first in a long series.

The room where the conference took place.

Our conference featured a dozen speakers who addressed a variety of topics, including abortion, contraception, birth rates, the family, raising children in the face of state indoctrination, euthanasia, and the place of Christianity in society. In particular, the role of the father in the family was discussed.

Exposition tables in the lobby.

The event went smoothly; we had taken all necessary security measures to ensure that everything would proceed without incident, including hiring security guards for this purpose. We must also acknowledge the work of the Montreal Police, who kept the pro-abortion demonstrators protesting against the conference at a safe distance.

A big thanks to the organizations and speakers who participated in Génération Vie, and thanks to Théovox, Muraille de feu, Campaign Life Coalition, the APCQ, EPPNE, CCBR, UVVC, the Conservative Union, and the People’s Party of Canada. Many thanks to the Ministerios Restauración church for hosting us. Thanks to Attorney Jean-Yves Côté, Dr. Paul Saba, and Nathanael Séneron for their speeches.

More content on Génération Vie is coming soon, including the video from Théovox, which filmed the entire conference.

We hope to see many of you there next time.

Protests Against Bill C-9

The next action being organized by CQV, in collaboration with Campaign Life Coalition, is a series of protests on May 1st against Bill C-9, which will soon be moving to the Senate for its third reading. We must come together to protest this bill, which amounts to censorship.

More information on the protests against Bill C-9.

Ottawa March for Life

On May 14th, the must-attend National March for Life will take place in Ottawa, bringing together thousands of pro-life Canadians from across the country. We have a chartered bus leaving from Montreal for the march:

Chartered bus departing from Montreal
Downtown (departure at 6:45 a.m.)
Pointe-Claire, Fairview Shopping Centre (7:30 a.m.)
Cost: $60
Reduced cost for families, seniors, and students.
For more details:
(514) 344-2686 or (438) 930-8643

Quebec City March for Life

And finally, the much-needed Quebec City March for Life on Saturday, May 30th. More details to come.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

Bill C-9 on “hatred” is now nearing its final stage in the Senate, and we have one last chance to voice our opposition to this censorship bill before the third-reading vote.

We invite you to join us – in a spirit of peace and prayer – to protest against the freedom-destroying Bill C-9.

On Friday, May 1st, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Quebec Life Coalition, in partnership with Campaign Life Coalition, is organizing demonstrations across Canada in front of the constituency offices of Liberal and Bloc Québécois MPs.

For more details and to register for the protests against C-9, click here.

The reason we are addressing MPs, particularly Liberals, is that 81 of the 98 sitting senators owe their positions to Justin Trudeau, and, although labeled “independent,” they owe their advantageous positions to the Liberal Party. A change of course among the Liberals on certain elements of C-9 would inevitably be reflected among the senators. The Bloc Québécois, for their part, are complicit in the passage of C-9 in the House of Commons, in exchange for an amendment removing the good faith religious defense regarding “hate speech.”

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A big thank you to everyone who contacted Quebec’s senators. Thanks to your efforts, more than 6,000 emails – or 300 to each senator – were sent to them. If you haven’t done so yet, we urge you to take action now.

Send an email to Quebec’s senators here.

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As you know, Quebec’s Bill 9, which bans street prayers, was passed in the middle of the Holy Week (it goes into effect in September). In response to this anti-religious move, the bishops of Quebec are inviting citizens to sign an official petition – which now has over 13,000 signatures – on the National Assembly’s website, calling for the repeal of Bill 9. The deadline to sign is April 23rd.

View the petition for the repeal of Bill 9 here.

What is interesting about Bill 9 is that the president of the Assembly of Quebec Catholic Bishops, Bishop Martin Laliberté, has raised the idea of a kind of mass civil disobedience, in which thousands of believers would take to the streets to participate in a procession like the Feast of Corpus Christi.

We are living in strange times, where the federal and provincial governments (Pontius Pilate and Herod) have chosen the same moment to attack our freedom of religion and expression.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

The Liberals have finally secured a majority in the House of Commons, thanks to their recent victories in three by-elections. It goes without saying that without the five defecting MPs who joined the Liberal ranks, Carney would still be leading a minority government.

Thanks to this sleight of hand (which casts doubt on the trust one can place in a candidate to whom one gives one’s vote), in which the magician-banker transformed Conservatives into Liberals, Carney now has free rein to pass whatever legislation he wants.

The Liberals no longer even need the Bloc to pass censorship laws like Bill C-9 on “hate.”

However, as you are no doubt aware, C-9 was passed in the House of Commons thanks to the Bloc’s support, on the condition that the bill include the removal of the “good faith religious defense” regarding “hate speech.”

Bill C-9 is awaiting its third reading in the Senate, at which point a ultimate amendment can be introduced—the very last chance to overturn or weaken this harmful legislation.

Indeed, if we fail to convince senators to reject all the problematic provisions the Liberals have included in Bill C-9, perhaps we could persuade them to reject the amendment asked by the Bloc, thereby sending the bill back to the House, where the Liberals, no longer needing their early Bloc accomplices, could pass C-9 while retaining the religious exemption.

Does this mean we would approve C-9 as modified? No, because it aims to penalize people based on their “emotions” — a subjective matter — and could be maliciously used against speeches that certain activists would label “hate speechs” for the sole purpose of silencing them.

But it is better to reduce an evil if we cannot eliminate it. That is why I urge you to contact Quebec’s senators to ask them, if they are not willing to remove the criminalization of a feeling, to reinstate protection for religious speech made in good faith.

Click here to contact Quebec senators>>

Why Quebec senators in particular? Because the Liberals might use the fact that the repeal of the religious exemption originated with the Bloc Québécois — and thus with Quebec — as a pretext to keep the repeal in place. We can easily imagine them saying, “We want to take Quebec into account.” However, if Quebec senators — who also represent Quebec — were to speak out against the repeal of the religious defense, it would publicly demonstrate that Quebec is not unanimously behind the Bloc and its anti-religious agenda.

We therefore invite you to contact these senators, even if you are not from Quebec.

Click here to contact the senators>>

Génération Vie

The Génération Vie event is just around the corner; on April 25, we will hold this forum aimed at bringing together pro-life advocates in Quebec. Among the speakers who will address the event are:

Jean-François Denis of ThéoVox.

Nathanael Séneron.

Jean-Léon Laffitte of the APCQ.

Richard Décarie of the Conservative Union.

Georges Buscemi of QLC.

Luc Anger of UVVC.

Isabelle Laurin of EPPNE.

Sophie Archambault of UVVC.

It is important that the various advocates for life, family, and faith in Quebec join forces to advance these causes; we therefore invite you to participate in an event which will, we hope, lay the foundations for a broader movement.

Register here.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

Thanks to you, we have reached our $20,000 goal for our Lent / Spring 2026 fundraising campaign. Thank you!

Your generosity is a clear sign that, across Quebec and beyond, men and women are refusing decline and wish to work toward something greater.

And that is precisely what we now turn to.

On April 25, in Montreal, Génération Vie (Generation Life) will take place.

This French-language event is not just a conference.

It is an attempt to contribute to a Quiet Restoration of Quebec.

For too long, our Western societies have been organized around a central principle: so-called “freedom,” understood without limits, without direction, without purpose. The result is before our eyes: abortion, euthanasia, the redefinition of marriage, declining birth rates, weakened families, loss of meaning, and cultural uncertainty.

We believe renewal is possible.

But it must take place around a solid core:
faith, family, and life, from conception to natural death.

Like Christ, whose Resurrection we will commemorate this Easter Sunday, we believe that Quebec can rise again -- spiritually, morally, and demographically.

And that this return to Life begins with truths sown like leaven in the dough.

Generation Life is one of those moments where we sow.

We therefore invite you to be present.

Register now:
==> www.generationvie.ca

And above all: invite others

• friends
• members of your church or parish
• colleagues
• members of your family

Hundreds of people who share your convictions will be gathered. Your presence matters, as does that of those you bring with you.

You can also be an ambassador for the event:

• Like the Generation Life Facebook Event page
• Indicate your attendance (RSVP)
• Invite your contacts

Every action helps grow the movement.

Quebec is not condemned.

But it must be refocused around what makes a society live.

It is to this work that you are already contributing. Thank you for taking part.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Wishing you a fruitful journey toward Easter,

Georges Buscemi
President
Quebec Life Coalition

P.S. The National March for Life in Ottawa will take place on May 14:
www.marchforlife.ca

And the March for Life in Quebec City will take place on May 30.
Save the date -- more details to come soon.