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Mr. Trump: Canada’s Crackdown on Christianity Must End Before Trade Begins

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OTTAWA, June 11, 2025 — In light of escalating attacks by the Canadian federal government against pro-life and religious groups, including churches, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) will hold a press conference outside the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa this Thursday to call on the Trump administration to intervene on their behalf during the upcoming G7 Summit in Alberta.

Press Conference Details:
WHEN: Thursday, June 12, 2025 | 10:00 AM local time

WHERE: U.S. Embassy, 490 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON

WHAT: Press Conference & Petition Reveal

VISUALS: Public petition signed by more than 20,000 Canadians; delivery to Prime Minister’s Office to follow. A letter to U.S. President Donald Trump will be read by CLC National President Jeff Gunnarson and delivered to the U.S. Embassy.

Background:
As Canada continues an ongoing trade war with the United States, a different kind of war is being waged on home soil by the Canadian federal Government against its citizens: Religious freedom and freedom of speech are under direct attack.

Last December, an all-party Finance Committee tabled a report in Parliament with recommendations for the Federal Government to implement in the 2025 federal budget.

Two recommendations struck fear into the hearts of religious and pro-life citizens across the country:

1. Strip pro-life organizations of charitable status (Recommendation 429), and
2. Remove “advancement of religion” as a recognized charitable purpose under the Income Tax Act (Recommendation 430).

These measures, if adopted in the forthcoming budget, would undermine the legal standing and financial viability of churches, Christian charities, and pro-life organizations across Canada.

In contrast, the Trump administration’s stated foreign policy is to prioritize negotiations with countries that protect religious freedom and free speech. As President Trump prepares to visit Canada for the G7 meeting in Alberta this weekend, Campaign Life Coalition is calling on the U.S. administration to use its diplomatic leverage to speak out against this clear and present danger to the survival of faith-based and pro-life Canadian charitable institutions.

Following the press conference, a petition signed by over 20,000 Canadians will be delivered to Prime Minister Mark Carney. It demands that he immediately and unequivocally retract these proposals and defend the right of pro-life and religious organizations to exist without government interference.

Campaign Life Coalition rises with the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo, interdenominational faith leaders, and pro-life leaders in defence of freedoms that our Charter of Rights and Freedoms calls “fundamental”: Freedom of religion and freedom of expression.

Resources:
House of Commons: PRE-BUDGET CONSULTATIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE 2025 BUDGET: Report of the Standing Committee on Finance

Government of Canada: Revocation tax

Western Standard: BAKLINSKI: Faith under fire... what it would mean if Ottawa ended religious charitable tax exemption

National Post: Raymond J. de Souza: Proposal to strip religious groups of charitable tax status would eviscerate Canada’s charities

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops: Important Concerns Regarding Recommendations 429 and 430 on Charitable Status

Frank Cardinal Leo, Archdiocese of Toronto: Regarding the recent Finance Committee’s pre-budget report

Evangelical Fellowship of Canada: Finance Committee's troubling recommendations on charitable status

Christian Legal Fellowship: Pre-Budget Recommendations impacting religious charities

Catholic Civil Rights League: CCRL Call to Action: Defend Charitable Status for Religious Organizations

We're in the middle of June, its beginnings have unfortunately been overshadowed by the forest fires in the West, but this otherwise magnificent month is not over and can still fulfil the promises it holds. The same is true in the spiritual and political world. This month, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, very humble and very loving, some would like it to be the month of "pride", but it is up to us to let the light of truth, life and true love shine.

In a letter on Sacred Heart Month, Cardinal Francis Leo of Toronto calls on Catholics to honour the heart of Christ, which is "the only symbol we really need which underscores our human dignity, our call to holiness of life, Jesus’ sacrificial love for humanity, how precious we are to him and how ugly sin is as an offence to him." He points out that "Symbols are important as they convey meanings in what they represent, and they point beyond their own reality to something else, someone else." Cardinal Leo reminds us that Catholic symbols help us in prayer, in life and in the choices we make. He stresses the importance of not using ideological symbols that are contrary to the faith, in other words, of not adhering to these ideologies: "We need to make sure that the symbols we use are consistent with our Catholic faith and not borrowed from ideological fora, promoted by lobby groups and endorsed by political movements. We ought to honour and respect our traditions and not compromise the integrity of the faith by using symbols that are contrary to God’s divine revelation. We do good to use our own symbols to tell our own story without resorting to trendy, misguided and inadequate symbols that do not represent us as Catholics but rather contribute to confusion, distortions and ambiguities about what the Catholic faith truly teaches regarding the human person, human nature, and natural moral law."

Speaking of ideology, the "Comité de sages" (commitee of wises), set up by François Legault to respond to the September 2023 demonstrations by parents opposed to the teaching of gender ideology to their children, recently issued a biased report on the subject, demonstrating, according to Jean-Léon Laffitte, President of the Association des parents catholiques du Québec, "a complete failure of their ability to listen".

Today, Thursday 12th June, Georges Buscemi, President of Quebec Life Coalition, will take part in the press conference of Campaign Life Coalition, which will mark the presentation of a petition of 20,000 signatures to the Canadian Government for the protection of the charitable status of religious and pro-life charities, and the delivery to the US Embassy of a letter to the US government, on the eve of the G7 meeting in Alberta, calling on it to exert its influence on the Canadian government to respect Christians and pro-lifers.

Finally, I'd like to remind you that we've set up a questionnaire so that you can give us your impressions of the Quebec March for Life. This is very important to us, as we want to improve this emblematic event in the fight for the unborn child as much as possible.

Please fill in our questionnaire here >>

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

Article from the CQV team:

The Quebec City March for Life despite the obstacles
It was an epic and wet march! This year, once again, we held the Quebec City March for Life despite all the obstacles that were thrown in our path and despite the rain. Around 500 to 600 pro-lifers answered the call from Quebec Life Coalition and marched for the lives of unborn children through the streets of Quebec City on May 31th 2025. The theme of the march was "Every human being has the right to life". This is a quote from the Quebec Charter, the 50th anniversary of which is being celebrated this year.

Vigil 365

The Vigil 365 is a prayer vigil where, every day for one or two hours, pro-lifers pray in a public place at a certain distance from an abortuary for the end of abortion.

For more information, contact Brian Jenkins on (438) 930-8643.

By Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) - Photo: Georges Buscemi

It was an epic and wet march!

This year, once again, we held the Quebec City March for Life despite all the obstacles that were thrown in our path and despite the rain.

Around 500 to 600 pro-lifers answered the call from Quebec Life Coalition and marched for the lives of unborn children through the streets of Quebec City on May 31th 2025.

Photo: Augustin Hamilton

The theme of the march was "Every human being has the right to life". This is a quote from the Quebec Charter, the 50th anniversary of which is being celebrated this year.

Photo: AH

It was an epic march!

This year, once again, we held the Quebec City March for Life despite all the obstacles that were thrown in our path and despite the rain.

Around 600 to 700 pro-lifers answered the call from Quebec Life Campaign and marched for the lives of unborn children through the streets of Quebec City on May 31th 2025.

The theme of the march was "Every human being has the right to life". This is a quote from the Quebec Charter, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

March for Life in Quebec City – A Vital Mobilization in Troubled Times

Quebec City, May 30, 2025 – On the eve of the second annual March for Life in Quebec City, taking place this Saturday, May 31 at 11:00 a.m. in front of the National Assembly, Georges Buscemi, President of Quebec Life Coalition (QLC), is issuing a heartfelt call for Quebecers to stand up in defence of the right to life of every human being, from conception to natural death.

This march, organized in the very heart of Quebec’s capital, comes amid censorship of pro-life voices. The recent last-minute cancellation by the Delta Hotel of a peaceful, lawful pro-life dinner event — following anonymous threats and pressure from pro-abortion groups — is a troubling sign of the times. The hotel also abruptly cancelled more than 30 room bookings associated with the event.

“When the killing of unborn children is normalized and treated as a right, it comes as no surprise that intimidation and threats are used to silence those who defend life,” said Georges Buscemi. “What happened at the Delta is disgraceful — and the complicit silence of our authorities is alarming.”

A Matter of Fundamental Rights

As Quebec marks the 50th anniversary of its Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, QLC reminds the public that the very first article of that Charter states: “Every human being has a right to life.” “Why is virtually no one talking about this anniversary?” asks Buscemi. “Could it be that this principle makes us uncomfortable, now that society refuses to recognize the humanity of the smallest among us?”

Saturday’s gathering aims to give voice to unborn children, to women hurt by abortion, and to all those who defend justice for the most vulnerable. The event will feature music, speeches, a peaceful march around Parliament, and testimonies from post-abortive women — including a woman who survived a failed abortion attempt.

A Climate of Tolerated Violence

The dinner cancellation followed a campaign of intimidation carried out by self-identified “antifascist” groups who publicly posted their threats on social media. According to QLC, these groups operate with disturbing leniency from authorities. “One has to wonder whether these groups have effectively become state-tolerated ideological militias, doing the dirty work the government can’t legally do,” Buscemi said.

A Call to Action

Despite this pressure, Georges Buscemi invites all citizens of good will to join the March for Life, rain or shine:

🗓 Saturday, May 31, 2025
🕚 Starting at 11:00 a.m., in front of the National Assembly, Quebec City

“Rain must not stop us. Our moral outrage at abortion and the threats against pro-lifers should move us to action. We must rise up now, because in Quebec, human life is being abandoned — and the elites remain shamefully silent.”

QLC also calls on authorities to show consistency and courage by upholding the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, even when it runs counter to the dominant media narrative.

Media Contact:

Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition
📧 [email protected]
📞 514-928-4819

📍 Quebec City March for Life

🗓 Saturday, May 31, 11:00 AM – In front of the National Assembly
🚍 Buses from Montreal and other regions – Contact: Brian Jenkins, (438) 930-8643

Click here for the website>>

Click here for the Facebook event page>>

🚍 Bus from Downtown Montreal and Drummondville
Departure at 7:30 a.m., 430 Sainte-Catherine Street East (Berri-UQAM metro)
Arrival at 9 a.m., Drummondville (Bulk Barn, 1045 René-Lévesque Blvd, Drummondville, Quebec J2C 7V4)
Departure at 9:15 a.m., Drummondville
Arrival at 10:45 a.m., Quebec City (Hilton Hotel – 1100 René Lévesque Blvd East, G1R 5V2)
Contact: Brian Jenkins (438) 930-8643

🚍 Bus from West Island
Departure at 8 a.m., Pierrefonds (St. Thomas à Becket Church, 4320 Sainte-Anne Street)
Arrival at 11 a.m., Quebec City (Hilton Hotel – 1100 René Lévesque Blvd East, G1R 5V2)
Contact: Bernie Ratneiya (438) 518-8795

🚍 Bus from Granby
Contact: Isabelle Frédéric
(450) 775-0731 (cell)
[email protected]

📍 Quebec City March for Life

🗓 Saturday, May 31, 11:00 AM – In front of the National Assembly
🚍 Buses from Montreal and other regions – Contact: Brian Jenkins, (438) 930-8643

Click here for the website>>

Click here for the Facebook event page>>

Help us spread the word about the Quebec March!
Share in your church, community groups, with friends and family.
➡️ Download the 8.5x11 flyer here

Want printed flyers by mail or to pick some up at our Montreal office?
📩 Contact us: [email protected] / 1-855-996-2686

You may have read some strange headlines recently, such as the one TVA Nouvelles recently produced: "Even dead, a pregnant woman must stay plugged in because of Georgia's abortion laws". The headline refers to a pregnant woman who has been declared ‘brain dead’ and whose bodily functions are being maintained, if the headline is to be believed, so that the baby her body is carrying can be born, under an abortion law. I'll come back to this absurd idea of the "living corpse" a little later.

Why am I talking about this case? Because it shows several facets of the anti-culture of death in which we live.

The first is the malice of the media reporting on this case. If the woman in question, Adriana Smith, is really dead, how is it wrong to keep her body until a new life is born? It is true that the media approach the case mainly from the point of view of the grandmother, who expresses her discomfort at the fact that the decision regarding her daughter's body is not in the family's hands, but who nevertheless states, as reported elsewhere, that she wants the baby to be born. This incomprehensible media attitude can only be explained by the desire of the mainstream media to strike on pro-life laws on the slightest pretext.

But their impertinence doesn't stop there, because it turns out that it's not because of the "heartbeat" law that bans most abortions from 6 weeks in Georgia that Mrs Smith remains on life support, but because of the Advance Health Care Directives Act, passed in 2007 when Roe v. Wade was still in place, a law which prescribes that a pregnant woman in such a case must remain on life support unless the baby she is carrying is not yet considered "viable" and she has written an advance directive – which is not the case.

The problem with the concept of "brain death" is that it means that a person whose brain functions have ceased, but whose body is otherwise very much alive, is considered to be "dead". Which is absurd, because as we can see here, a woman can carry her unborn child – which is impossible with a corpse... As you no doubt know, organs are removed from people who are ‘brain dead’ if they have previously agreed to be "donors" – in some countries, people are automatically considered to be "donors" unless they have expressly indicated that they do not wish to be... The other problem is that the latest American Academy of Neurology guideline on "brain death" allows it to be declared, even if brain waves can still be detected in the person or the part of his brain called the hypothalamus is still functional – effectively violating the Uniform Determination of Death Act!

The irony is that the fact that Mrs Smith is being kept on life support because of her pregnancy may save her life – there are several cases of people declared "brain dead" who have woken up.

If only medias would admit that Mrs Smith is not dead, they would have one more (admittedly spurious) argument in their arsenal. Keeping a pregnant woman in a coma plugged in against her previously expressed wishes would be tantamount to restricting her "choice". This is not about to happen, however, because to do so they would have to reject the notion of "brain death", which holds that a person is no longer a person when they lose their rational functions, an idea that is a corollary of the one that holds that a person only begins to exist when they begin to have functional rational capacities. As you will have realised, to reject the one would be to abjure the other; to recognise the humanity of people in a state of "brain death" would be tantamount to admitting the humanity of unborn children in their earliest stages.

Both ends of life are threatened by the anti-culture of death. That's why I invite you to join us on Saturday May 31th, for those of you who live close enough, in front of the Quebec National Assembly for the 2nd Quebec City March for Life. Join us in defending the lives of the unborn and the vulnerable!

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

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📍 Quebec City March for Life
🗓 Saturday, May 31, 11:00 AM – In front of the National Assembly

🚍 Bus from downtown and Drummondville
Leaves at 7h30, 430 rue Sainte-Catherine est (métro Berri-UQAM)
Arrives 9h00, Drummondville (at the Bulk Barn, 1045 René-Lévesque Blvd, Drummondville, Quebec J2C 7V4)
Leaves 9h15, Drummondville
Arrives 10h45, Quebec City (Hilton Hotel - 1100 Rene Levesque East, G1R 5V2)
Contact: Brian Jenkins, (438) 930-8643

🚍 Bus from West Island
Leaves 8h00, Pierrefonds (St. Thomas-à-Becket Church, 4320 rue Sainte-Anne)
Arrives 11h00, Quebec City (Hilton Hotel - 1100 Rene Levesque East, G1R 5V2)
Contact: Bernie Ratneiya (438 518-8795)

🚍 Bus from Granby
Contact: Isabelle Frédéric
(450) 775-0731 (m)
[email protected]

Help us spread the word about the Quebec March!
Share in your church, community groups, with friends and family.
➡️ Download the 8.5x11 flyer here

Want printed flyers by mail or to pick some up at our Montreal office?
📩 Contact us: [email protected] / 1-855-996-2686

Quebec needs us. Now more than ever, la Belle province is sinking into a culture of death — normalized, technical, and silent.

In just three years, the use of the abortion pill in Quebec has doubled. Every year, around 20,000 unborn children are lost to abortion — and now, the goal is to make the process as easy as picking up a prescription. Soon, pharmacists will be authorized to prescribe the abortion pill without any examination or ultrasound. Medicine is reduced to a protocol. Human life, to a “product to eliminate.”

And as if that weren’t enough, left-wing party Québec solidaire is pushing to make contraception free, with potential support from the "centrist" CAQ. This wasteful public spending is being justified in the name of “women’s health,” even though hormonal contraception can cause serious side effects — including cancer and mental health issues. Worse still, some contraceptives have abortifacient effects.

Faced with this downward spiral, will we remain silent?

It’s up to us to act. It’s no longer enough to simply denounce. We must rebuild a culture of life — starting with concrete action, like standing together at the March for Life in Quebec City, Saturday, May 31, in front of the National Assembly.

Let’s gather in great numbers to boldly proclaim that every human life, from conception to natural death, deserves protection.

📸 Missed our recap of the Ottawa March for Life on May 8?
Here’s a snapshot of that powerful day of action:

➡️ Event recap
➡️ Photos & videos on our Facebook page

Let me close with this question:
What kind of society do we want to leave our children?
If we want Quebec to once again be a place that cherishes life, we must live that out — starting now.

Looking forward to seeing you on May 31 in Quebec City:

📍 Quebec City March for Life
🗓 Saturday, May 31, 11:00 AM – In front of the National Assembly

🚍 Bus from downtown and Drummondville
Leaves at 7h30, 430 rue Sainte-Catherine est (métro Berri-UQAM)
Arrives 9h00, Drummondville (at the Bulk Barn, 1045 René-Lévesque Blvd, Drummondville, Quebec J2C 7V4)
Leaves 9h15, Drummondville
Arrives 10h45, Quebec City (Hilton Hotel - 1100 Rene Levesque East, G1R 5V2)
Contact: Brian Jenkins, (438) 930-8643

🚍 Bus from West Island
Leaves 8h00, Pierrefonds (St. Thomas-à-Becket Church, 4320 rue Sainte-Anne)
Arrives 11h00, Quebec City (Hilton Hotel - 1100 Rene Levesque East, G1R 5V2)
Contact: Bernie Ratneiya (438 518-8795)

🚍 Bus from Granby
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Help us spread the word about the Quebec March!
Share in your church, community groups, with friends and family.
➡️ Download the 8.5x11 flyer here

Want printed flyers by mail or to pick some up at our Montreal office?
📩 Contact us: [email protected] / 1-855-996-2686

For Life,

Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition
en.cqv.qc.ca