June 24, 2022 was a great day for the pro-life movement worldwide. It was the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned, Roe v. Wade being a 1973 US Supreme Court decision that ordered all 50 states to decriminalise abortion within their borders. With the reversal of this iniquitous decision, each state will now be able to legislate on this crucial issue as it sees fit.

Unsurprisingly, some liberal states went even further down the road of permissive abortion, allowing abortion up to and even after birth. But other states, more humane, more conservative of the common good, severely restricted abortion. For example, following its law restricting abortion after 6 weeks' gestation, the state of Texas saw a 97% drop in its monthly abortion rate. So many lives saved -- unborn children spared physical carnage, mothers saved from spiritual carnage!

The question for us, north of the 49th parallel, is this: could this reversal rub off favourably on our country, on this "True North Strong and Free"? How can we import the success our neighbours to the south seem to be enjoying?

A fantastic 80 minute Canadian documentary entitled "Roe Canada: The True North in a Post-Roe World " sets out to answer this question. Originally shot in English and produced by Dunn Media, Quebec Life Coalition is now in the process of helping translate the film into French. You can now watch the French trailer, here :

(Click on the image above or on this link to watch our French translation of the trailer)

The aim of this high-quality documentary is to show how the gains made by this historic decision can be a game-changer in Canada, including in Quebec which, as we know, tends to see itself as more 'progressive' (pro-abortion) than other Canadian provinces. It's time for Quebecers and people in other parts of French Canada to be exposed to a different message from the one constantly repeated over and over, namely that "abortion is a right". In reality, abortion is the very definition of a violation of a fundamental right, the right to life.

High-quality documentaries like this one cost thousands of dollars per minute to produce. Although they cost much less to translate and dub, there are still costs, which we estimate to be at around $10,000. Please help us contribute to this sum by donating generously. This documentary, viewed throughout Quebec, could change people's minds and, above all, save lives!

We are five days away from the end of our autumn 2023 fundraising campaign. To date, we have raised $7222. Thank you to everyone who has given so generously! If you haven't given yet, our goal is $12,000. We still have $4,778 to raise. I hope you can help us reach this goal by the end of our campaign.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi

P.S.: Please donate today, if you can. We really need your support to continue working in Quebec for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death.

This week you can read about the record 315 locations across Canada where we held our Life Chain, our annual one-hour public prayer event for the unborn. You can see some photos of the event here.

Also, as we hold two 40 Days for Life vigils in Quebec (one in Montreal, one in Sherbrooke) until 5 November, you can read this testimony from a 40 Days participant imprisoned for his defence of the weakest: Will Goodman, imprisoned rescuer: "Our Lord has blessed me by allowing me this year to participate in a contemplative way in the 40 Days for Life".

To take part in the 40 Days for Life, a worldwide vigil where people of goodwill take turns prayerfully witnessing outside abortion centres for 12 hours a day and for 40 days in a row, please call Brian Jenkins at (438) 930-8643.

Brian Jenkins.

Finally, Bill C-314, which aims to prevent the extension of access to euthanasia to people suffering from mental illness, will be voted on 18 October. This vote is crucial if this pro-life bill is to move on to the next stage. If the vote on 18 October is negative, the bill will never see the light of day. Please contact your Member of Parliament to let him or her know that you want him or her to vote in favour of Bill C - 314!

We are seven days away from the end of our autumn 2023 fundraising campaign. To date, we have raised $6053. Thank you to everyone who has given so generously! If you haven't given yet, our goal is $12,000. We still have $5,947 to raise. I hope you can help us reach this goal by the end of our campaign.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi

P.S.: Please donate today, if you can. We really need your support to continue working in Quebec for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death.

We Canadians know that today is thanksgiving, but for what are we thankful exactly, and to whom? 

Far from being trivial, this question is fundamental.

There seem to be two ways this question can be answered. The first is Nihilism. It is to say, really, there is no one to thank, and therefore nothing to be thankful for. Our world began with an absurd "bang" which somehow coalesced into the flowers, birds, trees, buildings and people we see around us today. There might seem to be nice things we could be "thankful" for, but really they are nothing but the product of blind chance and a kind of chaos that is all the more cruel for seeming, for a while, to manifest a certain kind of beautiful harmony and order. But this order is an illusion, says the nihilist, for underneath it there lies dark disorder and nothingness.

Far from being thankful, proponents of nihilism (if they are honest with themselves-- which they hardly are, for why would they be?) live in a perpetual state of resentment and anger. Their basic mode of being is vengefulness. Like the son abandoned by his father and forever resentful and angry at having to stare at the empty hole in his heart where the love for his father should be, the nihilist lives out his life looting the riches of the world and despoiling it of its beauty. Everything he does is a feint or a pretext for his "will to power", his desire to control the world by swallowing it up, to be the god he believes doesn't exist. But a society driven by nihilism will not be the Nazi totalitarian empire some might believe it would be, because again, there is no reason for the nihilist to be consistently devoted to his nihilism. So a nihilist society is something much more depressingly close to where we are headed today: a society populated with people without integrity whose banal evil (adultery, sodomy, etc.) and sordid murders (abortion, euthanasia) are enforced as "the new normal". In other words, a lukewarm society, like a corpse.

Then there are those whom the nihilists hate: believers.

Believers know that pure chaos does not coalesce into a flower or a horse, much less a baby or a full grown woman in a bridal gown, no matter how many years one puts between the explosion and the wedding. Believers know that order, not chaos, is the fundamental feature of reality. They also know that order has an Author, God, who created this world ex nihilo -- out of nothing-- and therefore is all powerful, all knowing and, since he is the author of all beauty (and who can stare at a baby's face and say beauty does not exist!) beauty itself. Unlike the nihilist, the believer lives in a state of gratitude. If he slips out of this state by accident, having succumbed to a temptation in a moment of weakness, he has both a reason to pull himself back up and the means to do so: a saviour called Jesus Christ. A society built by believers is one punctuated by holidays ("Holy-days") where time is set aside to thank the Author of Life. All life in such a society will have the colour and pattern of a life of thanksgiving, a joyful life of gratitude for the gifts given and the help accorded when temptation or tragedy strikes. Crimes will happen, but they will be the exception, not the rule. They will be fought against. Abortion, euthanasia, sodomy, child sexual mutilation, child indoctrination, all would be fought and eventually outlawed, as they are wholly unworthy responses to the lavish generosity of our God.

So which way, modern man? Towards banal nihilism, or joyful gratitude? 

We at Quebec Life Coalition have chosen the path of joy. We refuse the way of resentment, despair and vengefulness, because as believers we know that a life lived in this way is an unfit response to the generosity of God. We joyfully fight the ills of our day, like abortion, euthanasia, and LGBT ideology, because life is a great gift and only a life well-lived, fighting evil and doing good, and enlivened by faith in Jesus Christ, is thanks enough.

On behalf of the whole team at Quebec Life Coalition, we wish you not only a happy thanksgiving day but a whole life spent in thanksgiving under God's loving gaze.

We are well into week two of our autumn 2023 fundraising campaign. Know that we can only do our work with your faithful support. 

Our goal is $12,000. About $ 3500 has been donated so far, and for that we are grateful. However, we remain $ 8,500 away from our goal. I hope you can help us reach it by the end of our campaign.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi

Ed Fast, Member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Abbotsford in the Canadian House of Commons, today introduced a bill to prevent access to "medical aid in dying" (euthanasia) from being extended to minors and people suffering from mental illness. You can read more about this bill here. Let's hope that parliamentarians today will vote according to reason and not according to the prevailing false ideologies.

The recent march for the purity of childhood ("Million March for Children") was not the result of the arbitrary hatred of a few "backward" and "far-right" parents, but a legitimate movement in defence of children against the diabolical attacks of perverted people who have taken power in our schools and other institutions. The proof: Hundreds of young Canadian girls confused about their gender have had mastectomies, according to the available data. How is this possible except in a school and societal climate where delusional gender ideology reigns? We need to crush this evil in our schools and in our society. And make no mistake: our opponents are trying to introduce this delusional ideology into every institution, including the armed forces!

Finally, our work at Quebec Life Coalition continues: publication of news, plans for a booklet on feminine modesty, a presence in the Ottawa parliament, participation in the children's marches, 40 Days for Life in Sherbrooke, and all of this in the wake of our recent "Life Chain" demonstrations.

Yesterday we completed the first week of our autumn 2023 fundraising campaign. You know that we can only do our work with your loyal support! Please support us by sending us a donation.

Our goal is $12,000. About $ 2000 has been donated so far, and for that we are grateful. However, we remain $10,000 away from our goal. I hope you can help us reach it by the end of our campaign on October 18.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi

Quebec pro-lifers are on the map ! 

(Quebec Life Chain locations)

Yesterday pro-lifers across North America held Life Chain demonstrations, where for one hour groups ranging from 5 to 50 prayed in a public place for an end to abortion while holding signs saying "Jesus forgives and heals", "Abortion Kills Children" and "Adoption: A loving option".

Hundreds of demonstrations were held all over Canada; and for the first time, Quebec held demonstrations outside of Quebec City and Montreal, spreading out in 11 locations: 3 in downtown Montreal, 2 in Sherbrooke, and one in each of the following locations: Pointe-Claire (West Island of Montreal), Quebec City, Lévis (south of Quebec City), Drummondville, Rawdon, and Sainte-Marcelyne-de-Kildare.

Life Chain in Rawdon, Qc

Pointe Claire, Qc

Lévis, Qc

Lévis, Qc

All in all, a great day for Life in Canada. And I'm glad to say that Quebec played its part, and we've only begun !

Our vital autumn 2023 fundraising campaign is now going strong. You know that we can only do our job with your support! 

Our target is $12,000. I hope you can help us reach it by the end of our campaign on 18 October.

For Life,


Georges Buscemi, President
Quebec Life Coalition / Campagne Québec-Vie

P.S. Please donate today, if you can. We greatly need your support to continue working in Quebec for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death.

I give thanks to God for all the work we've been doing lately on behalf of faith, family and life, from conception to natural death.

There's of course our participation in the fantastic child protection marches across Canada; the good fruits of these exceptional marches are still being harvested!

At the beginning of the month, we were also in Quebec City at the Conservative Party convention, where we were able to put forward a number of pro-family policies that will now have to inform the party's decision-makers on how to proceed in the next election.

The Conservative Party convention also saw the publication of a new French-language anti-abortion leaflet:



Entitled "Five reasons not to have an abortion", this leaflet can save lives! It's the first in a series of a dozen that we'll be putting together on a variety of subjects, including abortion, euthanasia (so-called "medical aid in dying"), marriage, faith, religion and the state, secularism... 

Finally, we're preparing for two upcoming events: the first is the "Life Chain" (see below), the pro-life, anti-abortion demonstrations that will take place this Sunday, October 1, in hundreds of locations across Canada, including a dozen in Quebec (see below).

The second is the 40 Days for Life vigil, which for Quebec this time will be held in Sherbrooke from today, 27 September, until 5 November 2023.

We're also starting the vital autumn 2023 fundraising campaign today. You know that we can only do our job with your loyal support! Please show your support by sending us a donation.

Our target is $12,000. I hope you can help us reach it by the end of our campaign on 18 October.

For Life,


Georges Buscemi, President
Quebec Life Coalition / Campagne Québec-Vie

P.S. Please donate today, if you can. We greatly need your support to continue working in Quebec for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death.

Quebec locations for pro-life "Life Chain" demonstrations

The prayerful pro-life demonstration Life Chain will take place this Sunday, October 1, from 2 to 3 p.m. or 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (see below), will be held in several Quebec cities -- join the one near you!

Montreal
Intersection Crémazie and St. Michel
Person in charge: Denis Beaudoin

Montreal
Intersection Décarie and Jean-Talon
Person in charge: Mario Richard

Montreal
Intersection Sherbrooke west and north entrance, Décarie motorway
Person in charge: Mary Barrett

Pointe-Claire
Hymus and Saint Jean intersection
Person in charge: Nelly Gonzales

Drummondville
Intersection Lindsey and Marchand
Person in charge: Michel Bélanger

Quebec
Intersection Boul. Laurier and ave Jean-de-Quen
Person in charge: Joseph Daniel Marcotte

Levis
Hôtel Dieu de Lévis Hospital, rue de Billy, 50m from the corner of rue Wolfe
Person in charge : Georges Buscemi
Time : 14h30-15h30

Rawdon
Queen Street & 6th Avenue, Rawdon, QC J0K 1S0
Person in charge: Évelyne Therrien

Sherbrooke
Rue King O & Bd Jacques-Cartier N, Sherbrooke, QC J1J 2E3
Manager: Brian Jenkins

Sherbrooke
1000 Rue Galt W, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 1Z8
+1 819-820-0208
Manager: Louis-Paul Belisle

Sainte-Marcelyne-de-Kildare
420 Rue Principale, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare, QC J0K 2Y0
Manager: Mathieu Binette

You are invited to meet the leader of the Christian Heritage Party, Mr. Rod Taylor.

This Saturday, September 16th, 2023, Rod Taylor, leader of the Christian Heritage Party will be visiting our QLC offices in Montreal to meet with Quebec supporters.

As the only fully pro-life federal party in Canada, the CHP has an important part to play in making our country more pro-life and more in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ. Mr. Taylor lives in British Columbia and does not often come to Quebec. Take this opportunity to come and meet him and discuss what we can do to make Canada more pro-life.

As director of political operations for QLC, I will also be present to answer questions on an overall pro-life strategy for Quebec and how the CHP can help change the political atmosphere in Quebec.

Most of the presentation will be in English, but we will provide partial French live translations.

3pm, Saturday, September 16th, 2023, at 3330 rue Rivier, Montreal, H1W3Z9 (map here). For all questions, contact me at 438-882-6249 or [email protected] 

Arpad Nagy
Director of Political Operations for QLC

Perversity in our schools and now, in our churches?

Sadly, it's true: a parish council of the Sacré-Cœur-de-Jésus church in the Saguenay-area municipality also named "Sacré-Coeur" (Sacred-Heart) has reportedly given permission to the Festival du Fjord to schedule a Drag Queen performance in the church itself, a performace which the organizers reassure us will be "family-friendly" in content. Enough is enough. Why this determination to make everything ugly, to desecrate everything? A church is not a concert hall, still less a dubious cabaret where transvestites strut their stuff to please a half-drunk clientele.

We have a duty to make ourselves heard, to oppose such desecration of a sacred place.

That's why we've produced this petition, to convince the parish council to withdraw its permission to use its premises for profane and perverse purposes.

Please sign! >>

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We invite you to our annual Corn Roast on Saturday, August 12, 2023, at 3330 rue Rivier, Montréal, H1W 3Z9 (behind Saint-Émile church); parking available on site; public transit, STM: Joliette metro, 3rd stop on bus no. 67.

Admission: $10

Program :

Noon - Corn on the cob
1 p.m. - Speeches
1:45 p.m. - Question period
3 p.m. - End of event and clean-up

The keynote address will be given by Dr. Paul Saba, a Montreal physician affiliated with Lachine Hospital, on issues surrounding respect for life. Dr. Saba is a well-known figure in the media and government, having taken a public stand in favor of respect for life from conception to natural death. He will address a number of topics, including his personal experience with the doctors who recommended abortion for his youngest child, and his fight against medical aid in dying, otherwise known as euthanasia. His presentation will begin around 1 p.m.

RSVP: (514) 344-2686 or e-mail [email protected]

For Life,

Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition

Summer is here and the weather these past few days leave no doubt about that – sunny, hot, and humid.

While doing the daily outdoor vigil, I’m blessed not only by the morning freshness but also to stand in the shadow of a large skyscraper. Also, once the sun climbs above this building, I can cross over to the other side of the street where shade has yet to disappear. This second spot suffices for the balance of the morning vigil.

This morning’s vigil had some drama. Not long after my arrival, I noticed a young couple who had parked their car not far from where I stood, yet within the zone that I am prevented by law from crossing into. With bated breath, I watched them closely awaiting a moment they would look in my direction permitting me to show them my pregnant support sign. This moment never came. The couple eventually entered the building where the abortion facility has its offices. I was disappointed.

Yet I was consoled in three ways. First, I was joined by Mary. She faithfully comes weekly, staying for about an hour and reciting with me a variety of prayers.

Next Karen arrived, a local homeless person whom I have come to know over the years, She frequently asks for alms. This morning was no different. I told her that I would buy her some food were she to wait but another fifteen minutes, the time remaining in my daily vigil. I have stopped giving her cash as she has a history of substance abuse. She didn’t wait.

Finally, my initial disappointment was allayed by several well-wishers who affirmed our presence. While Mary and I were praying, a woman walked over to thank us and immediately thereafter a first gentleman and then a second acknowledged their support with a smile and a gesture as they continued their way.

I wish to thank you for your on-going support of this and other activities we do at the Quebec Life Coalition (QLC). If you wish to help us further, consider making a donation HERE.

On the topic of our activities, this past June we did a similar public testimony - a walking pilgrimage through the streets of downtown Montreal. Since its inception in 2017, we have hosted eight different pilgrimages, different in terms of path taken but alike in that each stopping near abortion facilities where prayers of reparation for the lives lost and the families wounded by abortion were done. Over the years, we have prayed outside thirteen abortion centres.

With approximately 30 000 abortions per year in Quebec alone, the task before us, the end abortion, is monumental. Yet, we take courage in knowing that the fight is not our own but that of Our Lord. We are mere instruments. In humility we subordinate ourselves to the Divine Will in varied ways and so when miracles happen, when women and the public change see the harm of abortion, we know that it is not of our own doing but His.

This summer we will also be active politically as four of us will attend the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) national convention planned for Quebec City the first week of September. We are planning to attend as delegates so as to vote in favour of pro-life policies into that party’s platform.

Why the Conservatives? The other federal policies – the Liberals, the New Democrats, the Bloc Québecois, are unmoved and unrepentant in their lack of defense for the protection of unborn life. And though only about 40% of the CPC membership is pro-life, we at the QLC are networking with other Canadian groups to bolster this number and vote in solid pro-life policies.

Lastly, we are not forgetful of being active recreationally. Our annual corn-on-the-cob is scheduled for Saturday, August 12, 2023. Open to all, this afternoon event – corn will be served beginning at noon and clean up will be begin around 3pm, has yet to disappoint.

As in years past, we have a guest speaker, Dr. Paul Saba, MD. The doctor is a public figure well known in his defense of life from conception to natural death.

Christ alone, who is Life itself, touches hearts, making them accept sacrifices which necessarily form part of a life in a society which respects every human being at every stage of its development.

Thank you for you ongoing support at building a culture of life.

Sincerely Yours,

Brian Jenkins
Outreach Coordinator
(438) 930-8643
[email protected]

Protests at the Supreme Court of the United States on the day Roe vs Wade was overturned.
"2022.06.24 Roe v Wade Overturned – SCOTUS, Washington, DC USA 175 143227" by Ted Eytan is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

By Georges Buscemi, President of Campagne Québec-Vie

Last year’s reversal of the Roe vs. Wade decision in the U.S. may have prompted some to believe that a tectonic shift was underway in favour of the protection of unborn life in the U.S. and around the world. However, this stunning pro-life victory, which abolishes any so-called “right” to abortion in the U.S. and grants states the right to limit—or liberalize—abortion as they see fit, as epochal as it may be, should motivate pro-lifers to deepen their view of the battle against abortion, if they wish to make any long-term progress. For, as I have argued elsewhere, the fight over abortion is symptomatic of a deeper cultural battle between two opposing worldviews: the first an a-religious “liberal” worldview, and the second a non-liberal, religious worldview. While the fall of Roe is good news for the pro-life side, the ultimate defeat of abortion will depend on each country’s success, on both an individual and societal level, at rejecting the “pro-choice” or liberal worldview and adopting the religious one.

My diagnosis seems to have been at least partially confirmed by a recent Pew Research Center study on Global Attitudes to Abortion and Religion. Published on June 20, this international survey of 24 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, first reveals a disturbing truth, that favourable attitudes towards legal abortion predominate in Europe and North America. In Canada, for example, over 75% of the population agrees that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, whereas 17% wishes it were illegal. In the UK, 84% of the population favours legal abortion and 14% opposes it, while in the U.S., 62% believe that abortion should remain legal in all or most cases, whereas 36% say the opposite. In certain European countries, the situation is far more dire: in Sweden, for example, an overwhelming 95% of the population thinks abortion should be legal in all or most cases, with a barely measurable remnant of 2 or 3 percent thinking otherwise.

But what I consider the most interesting part of this study is its demonstration that attitudes to abortion are very closely related to attitudes towards religion. This study shows that in country after country, with very few exceptions, religious adherence (or lack thereof) precisely predicts whether the country will be disposed or not to legalizing abortion. In Indonesia, for example, where 97% of the country’s 274 million people deem religion to be “very” important, fully 83% think that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. Conversely, in the land of Ikea (Sweden) where 95% agree that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a corresponding 74% believe religion to be not at all or not too important to them. In other words, the more religious, the more pro-life and conversely, the more a-religious, the more “pro-choice” or favourable to legal abortion.