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By Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) — Photo: motortion/Adobe Stock

Bill C-9, entitled “Combatting Hate Act”, introduced by Mark Carney's Liberal government on September 19, 2025, poses a serious threat of censorship to the freedom of expression of Christian, pro-life, and pro-family Canadians, whose words are often labeled “hateful” by their opponents for the simple reason that their discourse criticizes the ideology of the latter.

As far as we are concerned, C-9 proposes:

• to redefine hatred,
• to create a new category of “hate-motivated” offenses as an aggravating factor in the commission of a crime.
• and to facilitate the prosecution of “hate crimes” by removing “the requirement that the Attorney General consent to the institution of proceedings for hate propaganda offences".

“Hatred” (understood here as a feeling) has been defined by case law as follows in the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R. v. Keegstra: “hatred connotes emotion of an intense and extreme nature that is clearly associated with vilification and detestation,” and "Hatred is predicated on destruction [...] [It represents] an emotion that, if exercised against members of an identifiable group, implies that those individuals are to be despised, scorned, denied respect and made subject to ill-treatment on the basis of group affiliation."

However, Bill C-9 defines “hatred” as follows: “the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than disdain or dislike.” We can already see that the definition is much vaguer and does not include the idea of mistreatment, for example, which opens the door to varying degrees of interpretation within the courts and commissions responsible for judging cases of “hatred.”

We are on the last day of our blitz campaign for Pregnant and Worried. Our goal: $15,000 in two weeks. As I write this, we have reached $12,800, which is 85% of the goal.

All we need is another $2,200.

The stories you've read — the young mother in Montreal who was saved in time, the pro-life nurse who spoke up at the decisive moment, the grandmother who sought help from across the ocean — show the importance of being there at the crucial moment. It is this presence that we want to ensure with your support.

We are just a few steps away from our goal, and we can get there.

Why is this final push so important?

Pregnant and Worried does not operate on nothing or randomly. This organization has a very specific goal:

• to ensure a visible online presence when a woman searches late at night;
• to respond quickly and humanely when she calls;
• to train and coordinate a discreet network of volunteers and professionals;
• to offer a real alternative before the irreversible act is taken.

We know — studies show it — that thousands of abortions take place because of a lack of support at the precise moment of crisis. We also know that when someone intervenes in time, life can be saved.

Sometimes the difference comes down to a conversation, an explanation, a presence, a number found on the Internet. And that depends on us.

$2,200 to reach the goal

At this point, it's no longer a big mountain to climb. We will cross the finish line today if:

• 26 people donate $100;
• or 52 people donate $50;
• or a few donors make a larger donation.

So I am asking you, if you can, to make one final, generous gesture.

Make your donation now

We know you can do it. Your generosity has already helped us reach 85% in two weeks. The last 15% is within our reach. Let's not let this campaign stop just a few steps from the finish line. Let's finish it together, let's finish it strong, because at the end of the day, it's not about a number.

It's about a woman in distress who is searching.
It's about a baby who could live.
It's about a network that needs to be ready.

Thank you for being part of this concrete, strategic, and vital work.

With my deepest gratitude,
Augustin Hamilton

P.S. We are $2,200 short of our $15,000 goal.
Today is the last day.
If you've been waiting for the right moment to act, now is the time.

Donate to the campaign

There are roughly 20,000 abortions each year in Quebec and 100,000 across Canada. That means 54 abortions per day in Quebec — about two every hour — and 274 per day in Canada.

Since the 1988 Morgentaler decision, abortion facilities are no longer required to record a reason. We therefore cannot know precisely why today’s Canadian women choose abortion. But earlier large-scale studies do give us important clues.

A major pro-abortion Guttmacher study (2004) found that less than 1% of abortions were due to rape, and less than 0.5% due to incest. The overwhelming reasons given were socio-economic: financial pressure, fear of life disruption, and relationship circumstances.

More recently, a 2023 study reported something even more striking: 60% of the women surveyed said they would have preferred to give birth if they had received more support or greater financial security.

If this finding holds — and if women in Quebec and Canada are broadly similar to their U.S. counterparts — then a large share of abortions could be avoided if women in crisis were reached in time, before entering the abortion facility.

Laws and courts matter. But this tells us something crucial:
a great deal depends on whether help is visible and accessible at the exact moment of crisis.

As I write to you, $8,820 has already been raised toward our $15,000 lightning fundraising campaign for our pregnancy care service Enceinte et inquiète (Pregnant and Worried).  With 5 days left, we still need $6,180 to ensure our pregnancy care service is fully visible to women in crisis at the critical moment. Give today if you can >>

We are now 8 days away from the end of our lightning fundraiser for Enceinte et Inquiète, our pregnancy help and referral service. So far, you have helped us raise $6,074 toward our $15,000 goal.

That means $8,926 still to go.

This campaign has already shown you two powerful realities:

First, the baby saved because an African grandmother found Enceinte et Inquiète online and reached out across continents. Second, the baby saved in a Montreal hospital because a pro-life nurse had the clarity and courage to speak when everything was on the line.

If you missed them, you can read those stories here:

• The African grandmother and her grandchild in the womb.
• The hospital nurse and the mother who chose life.

Those stories show what Enceinte et Inquiète does when the moment of crisis arrives.

But today, I want to show you something else just as important: how we prepare people before that moment arrives.

One of the main purposes of Enceinte et Inquiète is not only to answer emergency calls, but to equip volunteers of all walks of life to defend life where they already live and work.

Doctors.
Nurses.
Students.
Parents.
Retirees.
Ordinary people with extraordinary love and courage.

When they are equipped, encouraged, and supported, they become instruments of life in their own circles of influence.

Just recently, our colleague Arpad was invited to speak in Edmonton at The Back Porch, a pregnancy care centre located directly across from an abortion centre. The event was hosted by Rachel, the director of the centre, and organized in collaboration with Edmonton Pro-Life.

Arpad Nagy giving a presentation in Edmonton.

Arpad's presentation that covered:

• Quebec’s early history and cultural roots
• The impact of the Quiet Revolution
• Why Campagne Québec-Vie was founded
• What Enceinte et Inquiète does today
• How the Quebec pro-life movement has grown stronger
• What the future holds for pro-life work in Quebec

There were snacks, coffee, discussion, and a long question period. People were deeply appreciative. And something important happened: bridges were built between Quebec and Alberta, between people who share the same mission, but often work in isolation.

Lori from Edmonton Pro-Life, Rachel from the Edmonton pregnancy center, and Arpad from QLC.

This is exactly what we want to do here in Quebec in 2026.

We are planning to organize an annual Enceinte et Inquiète convention for pro-life volunteers, including workshops, training sessions, and opportunities for encouragement and networking. It will be a place where people can:

• gain confidence,
• learn practical tools,
• receive moral and spiritual encouragement,
• and realize they are not alone.

Because often, all people need is encouragement and example to decide to stand against the current and do the good they were created to do as people of conscience and children of God.

Your donation today does not just respond to crises. It **equips **the people who will respond to them tomorrow.

It helps us recruit volunteers across Quebec who will save lives where they live, using the tools, wisdom, and courage they received though us.

With 8 days left, and $8,926 still to raise, we urgently need your help to finish strong.

Please give today to support:

• our networking efforts across Canada,
• our volunteer training and encouragement,
• and the future Enceinte et Inquiète convention in Quebec.

GIVE NOW >>

Together, we are not only saving lives. We are forming a generation of people ready to defend life wherever God places them.

Thank you for standing with us.

Georges Buscemi
President
Quebec Life Coalition

P.S. We have raised $6,074 so far, with 8 days left to reach our $15,000 goal. Your gift today helps fund volunteer training, networking, and our future Enceinte et Inquiète convention in Quebec. Help us build the army of conscience our province so desperately needs:

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A quick update from our lightning campaign for Enceinte et Inquiète:

We have 12 days left.
We have raised $2,393 so far.
Our goal is $15,000.

This campaign is about strengthening a discrete but powerful network of pro-life professionals and other volunteers working for Life in Quebec—often unseen, often unacknowledged, but saving lives.

And today, we want to show you exactly how that happens.

Give now to strengthen Enceinte et Inquiète >>

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A nurse in a Montreal hospital wrote to us recently.
She asked to remain anonymous.
But her story deserves to be heard.

She was caring for a young woman who was 9 weeks pregnant and suffering from severe hyperemesis gravidarum—constant vomiting, dehydration, I.V. complications, exhaustion. After repeated failed attempts to reinsert an I.V., the patient broke down and said:

“I’m tired of all of this. I think I need to terminate this pregnancy.”

When another nurse reported this, our pro-life nurse felt what she described as “her heart being crushed.” But instead of stepping aside, she stepped forward.

Photo : Yakobchuk Olena/Adobe Stock

Here is my story with a patient from a week or two ago. It was an incredible opportunity to spread the Pro-Life message to a woman in a difficult situation. I gave many details but still left some out, as it must remain anonymous for the confidentiality of the patient. (...)
Thank you for giving me the chance to share my story.

— A Pro-Life Nurse in Montreal

I am a nurse at a hospital in Montreal, working in postpartum; however, our clientele also extends to prenatal cases of hyperemesis gravidarum (excessive pregnancy vomiting). Last week, I had a patient with this condition. She was 9 weeks pregnant and had been vomiting for two weeks. She was not able to keep anything down, to the point that even drinking water was difficult.

On the first evening that I had her, I congratulated her on the pregnancy, despite the difficulties she was experiencing. I told her how wonderful it was that she was having a baby, which made her smile, even though she was still dealing with nausea and a decreased appetite. In addition, she had an unexplained infection and therefore required IV antibiotics. She was dealing with a lot, but she had support from her husband, who encouraged her and tried to help her eat as much as she could tolerate.

The next evening, she was having complications with her IV; it had become infiltrated (no longer in the vein), and it was difficult to reinsert because she was so dehydrated. Several nurses had tried the day before and were unsuccessful, until finally someone was able to place one. So when it happened again, she was completely exhausted by it all. She said she did not want an IV anymore, even though she needed it to stay hydrated and receive the antibiotics. She eventually conceded and said we could try again. I asked another nurse to reinsert it, but after a short while, the nurse came out of the room and said, “You need to call the doctor. The patient just told me she wants to terminate the pregnancy.”

This baby you see in the photo is alive today because a pregnant woman in distress found help at the right moment.
And because Quebec Life Coalition and Enceinte et Inquiète (Pregnant and Worried) existed to offer that help.

Today we are launching a two-week lightning campaign to strengthen Enceinte et Inquiète, a service that saves lives in concrete, measurable ways and that pushes back against the pro-abortion ideological monopoly. Our goal is $15,000 to consolidate and expand this breakthrough that is already transforming real situations. This email marks the beginning of an urgent and hope-filled mobilization.
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A grandmother, in Africa, worried about her pregnant daughter in Montreal.
Information about Quebec Life Coalition and our help service Enceinte et Inquiète (Pregnant and Worried) found online.
A call for help.
And Brian Jenkins, from our team, stepping in.

The young woman was alone, financially and emotionally vulnerable, abandoned by the child’s father.
But she was no longer isolated.
She now had access to a helping hand, to real, human support that respected life.

A few months later, this baby was born.

This is not a symbol.
This is not an argument.
This is a person.

Here is the proof that your generosity toward Quebec Life Coalition is an investment that truly bears fruit.

And that investment is beginning to disturb our opponents.

We know from their own reports that what they fear most is the expansion of services like Enceinte et Inquiète.
Why?
Because when the pro-life movement does more than protest—when it offers concrete help and becomes a credible alternative in health care and support for women—it gains immense legitimacy.

Our opponents want to preserve their moral monopoly on compassion.
We are in the process of breaking it.

And they know it.

This email is therefore a strategic response to a breakthrough moment.

Your support makes possible:

• direct interventions that save lives,
• the real spread of a pro-life culture within hospital settings,
• the gradual erosion of the pro-abortion ideological monopoly,
• and a popular credibility that our adversaries deeply fear.

We want to amplify the impact of our help service Enceinte et Inquiète, and that is why we are aiming for $15,000 in this two-week lightning campaign—to strengthen a momentum that is already growing.

In the coming days, we will share with you a second rescue just as striking: that of one of our donors who works in a Montreal hospital and who herself helped a woman choose life, using the kind of arguments and formation she receives through QLC.

Your generosity spreads.
It acts.
It saves.

If you would like to take a first step today to defend this work—both fragile and powerful—you can do so here:

GIVE >>

Thank you for making these stories possible.

Georges Buscemi
President
Quebec Life Coalition

P.S. This two-week $15,000 lightning campaign is dedicated to strengthening Enceinte et Inquiète, a service that saves lives, weakens the pro-abortion ideological monopoly, and gives the pro-life movement in Quebec the concrete credibility our opponents fear.
If you have not yet taken action, now is the moment to defend this decisive breakthrough:

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Quebec Premier François Legault has resigned.

With his party at a historic low in the polls, alongside the very “progressive” Québec solidaire (pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia), the CAQ leader announced his departure this morning, citing the good of Quebec as his reason. He will remain Premier until his successor is elected.

We will not miss him, notably because of Bill 21 on secularism which, far from protecting Quebec’s Christian heritage, weakens it in the name of an ideological struggle against any religious influence. Few dare to acknowledge that massive immigration is largely the result of the collapse of our birth rate and the loss of our Christian roots. With a rate of 1.33 children per woman, well below the replacement level, Quebec is heading either toward cultural replacement or toward disappearance.

Under François Legault, the CAQ also introduced Bill 9, which extends this secularism by severely limiting all public religious expression, including Christian expression.

Under Legault, the CAQ is also responsible for advance requests for euthanasia, the secularizing “Culture and Quebec Citizenship” program and its questionable “sexual education,” the marginalization of parents, the crackdown on homeschooling, the facilitation of late-term abortion, and a covid crisis management that closed churches while keeping liquor stores, marijuana outlets, and big-box stores wide open.

But the most serious issue remains the proposed Quebec Constitution, which enshrines abortion, euthanasia, and secularism. This text does not protect Quebec: it sabotages it. Secularism cuts it off from its roots, abortion from its future generations, and euthanasia from its solidarity.

Will Legault’s departure mean an improvement for Quebec? Perhaps, but only if we send a strong message to our elected officials, and to those who aspire to become them, that we refuse to accept anyone who claims to protect Quebec while sabotaging it in multiple ways.

We must therefore send a clear message, both provincially and federally, in defense of Quebec, our children, our seniors, and our families, against everything that destroys them: abortion, euthanasia, the perverse courses of sexual education and transgender ideology, and the secularism that cuts us off from God.

I recently wrote a Facebook post on Canada's demographic issue, mentioning the decline in the Canadian population following recent immigration restrictions and emphasizing the need to restore the importance of the family in order for society to be viable. I was surprised to see more than 1,000 likes, just under 1,000 comments, and some 150 shares.

You can read wonderful comments, such as this one:

I grew up in a family of 10 children with modest incomes, and it was possible to find housing as long as we were willing to share rooms with three people and roll up our sleeves to build and maintain our house and vegetable garden with our own hands.

A small income from renting out the upstairs also helped us make ends meet each month.

The savings generated by everyone's work enabled us to attend university, financed by student loans.

We had no car, no dishwasher — in short, no luxuries. Living modestly allowed us to achieve our goals of improving our living conditions with a minimum of sacrifice.

It's possible, but you have to prioritize the right things...

Admittedly, a significant proportion of the reactions expressed disagreement with the proposal in this publication, with less than a quarter of the “likes” consisting of “laughs,” as if there were something funny about the situation – but that's normal, even the most beautiful monuments, which certainly do not include the humble publication mentioned above, are not spared by these birds that leave a trace of their passage...

All this to say: the demographic issue arouses a lot of passion. Why? Because it is one of the main factors that determine the future of a people, and because, as long as people still feel attached to their nation, they cannot remain indifferent to it. Others, apatride in the heart, will see no problem with society literally degenerating and will laugh at this dismal spectacle (all that's missing is for them to play the lyre...).

Fortunately, in Quebec, a large number of people are still attached to their identity and will view with concern the replacement of society by mass immigration or its gradual decline. In both cases, Quebecers are not having enough children. And it must be said that if Quebecers had maintained the fertility rate we had on the eve of the “Quiet Revolution” (which was more like collective suicide than anything else), we would now have 20 million inhabitants.

We are entering an election year in Quebec, and it appears that the leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, wants to bring Quebec to a third referendum on Quebec independence. At the very least, this is an issue that will clearly take center stage throughout the year, both because of its supporters and its opponents.

But whether you are for or against such a project, the real issue, which risks being overshadowed by the referendum question, is that of demographics: if we don't have children, what is the point of staying in Canada or leaving it? The heritage we carry with us risks dying with us, because it can only be well passed on through the family, and if we no longer have families, we will have no one to pass it on to.

I am aware of the many obstacles that stand in the way of achieving this goal: the cost of rent and housing, inflation, education (or the challenge of raising children outside the monopoly of government education). Everything must be done to remove these obstacles.

The issue of family must be given greater prominence now more than ever, by “family,” I mean the real family, the one that allowed us to build Quebec, it must be encouraged, and we must also restore the spirit of sacrifice so well expressed in the comment quoted above. However, today's society is imbued with a spirit of selfishness and consumerism that is summed up in the sinister slogan “my body, my choice.” The two spirits are absolute antagonists, and the fate of Quebec depends on the outcome of this battle.

For my part, I was raised in a large family and we weren't exactly rich. Yes, we also slept two or even three to a room — but that's nothing, because family is the greatest reward for sacrifice.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

Here we are at the end of 2025, a year full of events and trials, good news and bad news. We have witnessed many advances in the culture of death this year, but also several victories for the culture of life. In Quebec, in particular, we see several bills threatening faith and life. However, in Quebec itself, we also see the pro-life movement growing stronger, promising even bolder actions for the coming year, 2026.

Below are some of our articles from the year that is coming to an end, recounting several significant events and actions.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support.
May you have a happy and holy year 2026.
Augustin Hamilton

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On Quebec's Proposed Constitution: A Grave Step Backwards for Life and Memory
On October 9, 2025, the Legault government tabled a bill aiming to provide Quebec with its own constitution. Among the so-called “foundational principles” of this constitution is the “freedom of women to obtain an abortion.” Campagne Québec-Vie strongly denounces the inclusion of such a principle, which consecrates the deliberate elimination of an unborn human being as part of Quebec’s foundational identity.

The Quebec City March for Life despite the obstacles
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.

Reflections on the 2025 March for Life in Quebec City
We are often reminded that we live under a so-called "liberal" regime, that is, a system founded upon "fundamental freedoms": freedom of religion, assembly, and expression. In Quebec, this liberalism is supposed to be protected by the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, adopted 50 years ago. Whether or not we agree with all its principles, in theory, we should be living under this rule of law.

Quebec would have 20 million inhabitants today if it had maintained its fertility rate of the 1950s
Without the drop in the fertility rate since the 1960s, Quebec's population would be more than double its current size. The decline in the birth rate since the Quiet Revolution has had a major impact on the province's demographic growth.

Has Quebec passed the million-abortion mark since 1970?
In 1969, abortion was decriminalised in Canada and, that same year, Henry Morgentaler opened an abortion clinic in Montreal, marking the beginning of a barbaric and murderous era in Quebec. Since then, the number of abortions has risen significantly. According to available data, nearly a million abortions have been performed in Quebec over the years!

Practicing Catholic Mark Carney betrays his faith by defending abortion
After attending Catholic Mass, Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked by a reporter if he “explicitly support[s] a woman’s right to choose?” In the lead up to the question, the reporter had observed that Mr. Carney was a “practicing Catholic who went to Church” earlier in the morning.

First birthday for the twins of a mother we helped
In 2024, we were blessed to help between four and five women carry their child to term. Now in 2025, they are celebrating the one-year anniversary of these children. I’ve been invited to two birthday parties. Two of the women we've helped gave birth to twins, one set is pictured below.