Mark Carney.

By Pete Baklinski (Campaign Life Coalition) – Photo: video screenshot/Juno News

Last Sunday, 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.

Carney, practically tripping over his words in his eagerness to answer the question, replied: “I absolutely support a woman’s right to choose, unreservedly, and will defend it as the Liberal Party has defended it – proudly and consistently.”

Yes, horrifically, Carney, a practicing Catholic, supports the barbaric slaughtering of the weakest and most vulnerable among us – the preborn child.

He supports this even though Catholic teaching makes it clear that killing preborn children is a grave moral evil.

"Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion," states the Catechism of the Catholic Church. "This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.”

Mark Carney.

Blog by Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) – Photo: World Economic Forum/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons

Justin Trudeau's long resignation is finally coming to an end. Mark Carney, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in the party's leadership race, today becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

But who is this Mark Carney who becomes Prime Minister without being elected by the population, at least until the end of the next election?

He is what you might call a banker, having worked among other things for Goldman Sachs for 13 years before becoming Governor of the Bank of Canada and then the Bank of England. He advised Justin Trudeau on economic issues during the "pandemic". He was recently the chairman of the board of the Brookfield Asset Management investment. He is the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. He has also participated in the G20, the G7, was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the progressive think tank Canada 2020, a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, chairman of the Group of Thirty, and a member of the boards of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harvard University Overseers and the Rideau Hall Foundation.

Finally, Mark Carney is a Catholic and reportedly goes to Mass every week.

In general, Mr Carney seems to be fairly discreet about his moral convictions. With one rare exception, on June 24th, 2022, he wrote a tweet on the occasion of the Dobbs ruling (overturning the Roe ruling) by the US Supreme Court, deploring the rollback of "woman’s right to choose" (i.e. abortion):

"I’m proud to live in a country where a woman’s right to choose is so strongly supported. But the devastating decision today in the US is a clear reminder that progress should never be taken for granted.

Our commitment to protecting fundamental rights must be unwavering."

His message at the time indicates that Mark Carney is pro-abortion, which is not surprising given his success in becoming leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.