We'll hold our heads up high
Last Thursday, I was on the TheoVox podcast to discuss (in French) the recent constitutionalization of abortion in France. France is the first country to take this particular step towards the abyss: it enshrined a so-called "freedom" of abortion in its constitution. This means that, in this country, the law is not truly respected, for to call the act of killing an innocent human being in the womb a "freedom" (or "negative right", that is, a right not to be prevented from committing abortion) is to completely invert good and evil: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitterness into sweetness and sweetness into bitterness!" (Isaiah 5:20).
What will pro-lifers in Quebec, heavily influenced by what goes on in France, do to prove ourselves worthy of this moment in history? We'll hold our heads high, and we'll March !
We're organizing Quebec's First March pour Life this June 1st.
We'll March :
- to "jump-start" those of our fellow citizens who are unaware of the tragedy of abortion;
- to live our faith with integrity, in private and in the public square;
- to demonstrate to our fellow citizens -- through our families and our joy -- that there is an alternative to the culture of death;
- To show Quebec women that their best allies are pro-life Christian men and women;
- To take our rightful place in the public forum and influence decision-makers and all our fellow citizens;
- To prepare for action (political, educational, charitable) on other days of the year;
We will march annually, to act as the heartbeat of a restoration of our society. In the U.S., it took nearly 50 years for the March for Life in Washington DC, founded in 1974, to bear fruit in 2022, the pivotal year when Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision which in 1973 imposed abortion on all 50 states, was overturned.
Our Lenten and Easter fundraising campaign kicks off today. The theme of our campaign is that of our March: "I Love Life". We need your help to finance this March and our other actions.
Please contribute generously. Our goal is to raise $15,000 by April 3.
For Life,
Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition
40 Days for Life -- Montreal
Montreal's 40 Days for Life is underway until March 24. My colleague Brian Jenkins, with the help of faithful volunteers, is ensuring a 12 hours a day (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) presence for 40 days in front of a "health" center where unborn children are being killed. Come and pray outside an abortion center for unborn children and their mothers ==> https://www.40joursmontreal.org/participer
Our articles of the week :
Macron celebrates constitutional "right" to abortion at unprecedented ceremony in Paris
For the first time in France's history, a public ceremony was held on Friday to solemnize the inclusion of a new amendment in the Constitution.
I need your help
I need your help! As you may know, we're organizing Quebec's very first March for Life on Saturday, June 1, at 11 a.m., in front of the National Assembly in Quebec City. We want as many participants as possible. That's why we want to present this great project to as many communities as possible. So: if you live in Quebec and you attend a church or other, and you think this might be of interest to your group, please don't wait, but get in touch with me as soon as possible, either by replying to this e-mail or by calling me at (514) 928-4819. I'm ready to travel 7 days a week to present this great project of a first March for Life in Quebec City.
Quebec March for Life
Preparations for the first Quebec City March for Life on June 1, 2024 are well underway. The official website will be ready soon. For now, relevant information can be found here. Also, you can watch the trailer for this same March and then view the interview between myself and Jean-François Denis of Théovox explaining why this March is important for the future of Quebec and Canada.
Click to view the video -- March for Life - Quebec
Reflections on March 8, International Women's Day
Here you can read my thoughts on the occasion of March 8, International Women's Day:
==>Never will women find better allies than among pro-life Christians
News from our colloquium in Lévis
A CQV colloquium was held on Saturday, March 2 in Lévis. Three speakers showed three facets of a future Christian society that protects faith, family and life, from conception to natural death. You can read the proceedings here. Videos will be available shortly.
40 Days for Life -- Montreal
Also worth noting: the 40 Days for Life in Montreal are underway until March 24. My colleague Brian Jenkins, with the help of faithful volunteers, is lining up 12 hours a day (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) for 40 days in front of a "health" center where unborn children are being killed. Come and pray outside an abortion center for unborn children and their mothers ==> https://www.40joursmontreal.org/participer
A new, French-language book on euthanasia in Quebec and Canada
A book on euthanasia in Canada has been translated from English by Campagne Québec-Vie. Here is a message from its author, David Cooke:
Dear friends,
I wanted to share some exciting news about my book, "Trudeau's MAiD Service: A Euthanasia Program for Canada", which was first published in the fall of 2022.
First, with the help of my friends at Campagne Québec-Vie, we now have an updated French edition available to the public as of last Sunday. It's a dream come true for me, as I've always wanted to reach Canada's French population with this message! You can find it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1777413834/
(...)
Please pray that the MAiD expansion, scheduled for March 17, does not go forward, and that God convicts the hearts of our legislators concerning the evil, corruption and heartache they have unleashed on our land. As God has made clear, "Thou shalt not kill".
God bless Canada.
David Cooke
Don't hesitate to buy this short, very affordable, French-language book on the abuses of euthanasia, here.
For Life,
Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition
Preparations for a March for Life in Quebec City are well underway
Our 35th anniversary dinner in Montreal was a success. You can read a short report here.
Preparations for the first March for Life in Quebec City on June 1, 2024 are well underway. The official website will be ready soon. For now, relevant information can be found here. Also, you can watch the trailer for this same March here.
Click to view the video -- March for Life - Quebec
Also worth noting: the 40 Days for Life in Montreal are underway until March 24. My colleague Brian Jenkins, with the help of faithful volunteers, is lining up 12 hours a day (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) for 40 days in front of a "health" center where unborn children are being killed. Come and pray outside an abortion center for unborn children and their mothers ==> https://www.40joursmontreal.org/participer
For Life,
Georges Buscemi
President of Quebec Life Coalition
Our featured article this week:
Gilles Grondin Award presented to Dr. Paul Saba, exceptional Quebec pro-lifer
On February 24, 2024, we celebrated the 35th anniversary of Campagne Québec-Vie (CQV), an organization dedicated to the protection of the unborn child since 1989, at our benefit dinner at Saint-Ambroise church in Montreal. Around 70 people, supporters and volunteers gathered in a warm atmosphere, and we presented the "Gilles Grondin" award to Dr. Paul Saba, an exceptional Quebec pro-lifer.
A Parliament Hill rally against euthanasia
Our 35th anniversary dinner in Montreal (see below) is fast approaching. Join us to celebrate 35 years of fighting for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death! (**Please note: Most of the evening's proceedings will be in French**)
Next Tuesday, February 27, my colleague Arpad Nagy, CQV's Director of Political Operations, will be on Parliament Hill in Ottawa at 11 a.m. for a rally against euthanasia. In particular, he will be speaking against euthanasia for the mentally ill. Join him for this demonstration! (A bill, C-62, will soon be voted on in the Senate to suspend the extension of access to euthanasia for these mentally ill people. Let's make sure this extension is not only suspended, but definitively cancelled).
Finally, Montreal's 40 Days for Life is underway until March 24. My colleague Brian Jenkins, with the help of faithful volunteers, is ensuring a steady 12 hour per day presence (from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) for 40 days in front of a "health" center where unborn children are being killed. Come and pray outside an abortion center for unborn children and their mothers ==> sign up here for the 40 Days for Life in Montreal
For Life,
Georges Buscemi
President of Quebec Life Coalition
Quebec Life Coalition 35th anniversary dinner
Celebrating 35 years of Life! Since 1989, Quebec Life Coalition has been fighting for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death. Come celebrate with our pro-life family, in all simplicity: we'll be holding our 35th anniversary dinner on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at the Saint-Ambroise church hall in Montreal (6520 rue de Normanville, Montreal) with none other than National Coalition for Life president Jeff Gunnarson and QLC president Georges Buscemi and Dr. Paul Saba, this year's recipient of the Gilles Grondin award for outstanding Quebec pro-life activist. Come and join us! Doors open at 4:30 p.m., with dinner starting around 5:30 p.m.
Tickets are $30 each ($15 for children 6-12 and $0 for 5 and under) and can be purchased online or by phone: 1-855-996-2686 or (514) 344-2686. **Most of the evening's proceedings will be in French**
This week's featured article
Take part in the 40 Days for Life, from February 14 to March 24, 2024!
This winter, hundreds of communities across North America, including several Canadian cities, are simultaneously holding a 40 Days for Life campaign from Wednesday, February 14 to Sunday, March 24, 2024
News as surprising as it is encouraging
In news as surprising as it is encouraging, the Archdiocese of Montreal is suing the Quebec government for forcing hospices to offer euthanasia to their patients. The Quebec government wants to force Montreal's Maison de soins palliatifs et center de jour St-Raphaël to offer euthanasia to its patients, yet the Maison St-Raphaël is built on archdiocesan land leased under an emphyteutic lease for the symbolic sum of one dollar a year - on the express condition that the home does not commit euthanasia. Archbishop Christian Lépine, caught between the choice of canceling his contract with Maison St-Raphaël, and thus closing the facility, or turning a blind eye to the perpetration of euthanasia on archdiocesan property, chose instead to confront the source of the problem: Mr. Legault's government. A case to be followed with keen interest.
In another lawsuit against the Quebec government, Pastor Art Lucier, who represents Harvest Ministries International, is in the midst of legal proceedings against the government, which abruptly canceled HMI's pro-life event scheduled for June 2023 at the Quebec City Convention Centre. Art Lucier is determined to go all the way to court to get the government to acknowledge that it broke the law in taking this arbitrary action.
Quebec Life Coalition 35th anniversary dinner
Celebrating 35 years of Life! Since 1989, Quebec Life Coalition has been fighting for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death. Come celebrate with our pro-life family, in all simplicity: we'll be holding our 35th anniversary dinner on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at the Saint-Ambroise church hall in Montreal (6520 rue de Normanville, Montreal) with none other than National Coalition for Life president Jeff Gunnarson and QLC president Georges Buscemi and Dr. Paul Saba, this year's recipient of the Gilles Grondin award for outstanding Quebec pro-life activist. Come and join us! Doors open at 4:30 p.m., with dinner starting around 5:30 p.m.
Tickets are $30 each ($15 for children 6-12 and $0 for 5 and under) and can be purchased online or by phone: 1-855-996-2686 or (514) 344-2686. **Most of the evening's proceedings will be in French**
For Life,
Augustin Hamilton
Read moreThis trip will pay off for our movement
Last Thursday I traveled to the United States for the March for Life in Washington D.C. In the company of Jean-François Denis and his wife Nancy, hosts of the alternative Quebec media Théovox, I watched with keen interest as this annual March for Life unfolded, where, by my estimate, nearly 100,000 people gathered this year to defend the unborn child.
Our main goal was to study the organization and progress of the March, so we could better organize our own Quebec March for Life, which this year will take place in Quebec City on Saturday, June 1. Mark your calendars now for June 1!
Quebec City March for Life
A historic first
Saturday, June 1, in front of the National Assembly (Fontaine de Tourny)
Gathering from 11am
Speeches at 12pm
March through the streets of Quebec City 1pm
We filmed interviews and took lots of footage from the March on Washington, which you can see by following the link: https://www.cqv.qc.ca/washington2024
Also, we took time to plan certain elements of our future Walk as well as its promotion in the coming weeks. In short, we spent days filled with good memories and very useful exchanges.
Also in Washington, I spent several hours with a group of documentary filmmakers whose director, Léa Claremont-Dion, is a mother of two children and a postdoctoral research associate at Concordia University. Her documentary, filmed on behalf of Télé-Québec and scheduled for release in fall 2024, will focus on the effect, in Quebec and Canada, of the Dobbs decision, the 2022 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which affirms that abortion is not a right and which now allows each state of the United States to legislate as it sees fit on the matter.
We spent over an hour interviewing and the team followed me through the streets of Washington D.C. and to my hotel. Knowing that Mrs. Claremont-Dion was a doctoral student and had a keen interest in philosophy and issues of social justice, I gave her as a gift the book The Last Superstition, translated in French by Quebec Life Coalition. Suspecting that she would rather be in favor of the legalization of abortion, I hope that our interview as well as the reading of this masterful and enlightening book on several points will give her something to question some of her convictions.
Campagne Québec-Vie's 35th anniversary dinner
Celebrating 35 years ! Since 1989, Quebec Life Coalition has been fighting for faith, family and life, from conception to natural death. Come celebrate with our pro-life family, in all simplicity: we'll be holding our 35th anniversary dinner on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at the Saint-Ambroise church hall in Montreal (side door on rue de Normandville, church located at 1215 rue Beaubien E, Montreal, QC H2S 1T8) with none other than Campaign Life Coalition president Jeff Gunnarson and myself, QLC president Georges Buscemi and Dr. Paul Saba, this year's recipient of the Gilles Grondin award for outstanding Quebec pro-life activist. For tickets (30$) call us at 1-855-996-2686.
Reminder: Students for Life -- this Friday, January 26!
A Students for Life event organized by Quebec Life Campaign will be held at our offices (3330 rue Rivier, Montreal, H1W3Z9) on Friday, January 26, featuring Brian Jenkins, head of our Pregnancy Help division "Enceinte et inquiète", Johanne De Verteuil, who also does pregnancy help in the Drummondville area, as well as Blaise Alleyne of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform and Katie Somers of Toronto Right to Life. The event starts at 5 p.m. Pizza will be served. A nominal fee to offset costs will be appreciated.
For Life,
Georges Buscemi
President of Quebec Life Coalition
This week's featured article:
Large turnout at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Tens of thousands of pro-lifers marched in the U.S. nation's capital for the 51st annual March for Life, and time-lapse videos now show the impressive size of the turnout.
Keeping mothers off the conveyor belt to abortion
One important thing we do in defending life from conception to natural death is help mothers facing a crisis pregnancy carry their child to term.
In Quebec, most women faced with a crisis pregnancy will dutifully head to their local government health clinic (called CLSC) and most of the time be plopped onto a virtual conveyor belt to abortion. Our goal is to divert the most women possible from state health care and into more trusted hands, who will fight for both the mother’s welfare and that of her child.
That’s why we created “Enceinte et inquiète” (Pregnant and Worried) more than a decade ago. Unlike most charitable works, which, if they wish to conserve their government funding, must walk on eggshells when they provide services to the public (this means steering from anything even vaguely controversial, abortion being one of the most controversial topics of all), Enceinte et inquiète is unabashedly pro-life in its approach to helping women. We aren’t afraid of being “outed” as pro-life and losing government grants and other state largesse, since we never received a cent from the gov’t and never intend to do so, so long as it remains pro-abortion.
We receive calls for help via our toll-free hotline (1-855-871-4442) or our website (www.enceinteinquiete.org). Needs range from childbirth without health insurance, to teen pregnancy, to help finding housing, to problems with violence, and everything in between.
The last few weeks have been particularly busy, with up to 8 cases being handled at once by my colleague Brian and his growing team of volunteer women. Our work mainly consists in referral to trustworthy, vetted organisations who provide food, lodging and counselling, as well as help with finding various government subsidies or programmes.
We are literally fighting for the lives of babies and their mothers; and whether we win depends to a large extent on whether we are seen or heard. The government already has a very well-established network of referral centres – the aforementioned CLCS’s. For us to be able to divert women from these pro-abortion clinics we must advertise on social media and by other means. We also need funds to maintain our online presence and our toll-free hotline. Finally, we need staff supervised volunteers to field calls and to follow up with the women.
We are in the fight of our lives. Can you help us help women experiencing a crisis pregnancy?
We are currently in the midst of our Advent fundraising campaign; we aim to raise 15,000$. We so far have received 5,719$, for which we are very grateful. However, 9,281$ remains to be raised before the end of Christmas Day. Time is running out. Please give sacrificially today if you can!
God bless,
Georges Buscemi
Here's how we’ll stand for Life in Quebec in 2024
Yesterday we received news that sums up the particularly Québécois challenges we face as a pro-life group here in Quebec.
The other day, a pollster was commenting on how Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) was rising in the polls everywhere across the country but not yet in Quebec, where the CPC is still behind the Bloc and the Liberal Party.
The pollster then remarked that the Conservatives have strong potential in Quebec, but that they needed a good “Quebec lieutenant,” a person who could sell the CPC brand to Quebecers, translating policy not only into French, but presenting it in a manner they understand and empathize with.
Immediately I thought to myself: “this is a big slap in the face of the current, official CPC Quebec lieutenant, MP Pierre-Paul Hus” who obviously isn’t doing his job, according to the pollster. I thought to myself that the CPC, if they got the pollster’s message, must be looking for someone other than Pierre-Paul Hus, someone Montreal-centric, someone who could speak to new demographics.
And right on cue, just yesterday, out comes Anaida Poilievre, Pierre Poilievre’s wife (who had grown up in Montreal’s east end, having emigrated from Venezuela to Canada with her family), on Quebec television, selling the CPC to Quebecers. Here was a younger, darker-skinned, Montreal-raised woman as a CPC Quebec “lieutenant,” exactly what the pollster had called for a few days before.
And now: what was her message? How was she going to sell the CPC to Quebecers?
She declared the following: “We [she and her husband Pierre] are pro-choice. We have spoken out on this. I am a woman from Quebec, I grew up here. And it’s part of my values.”
This interview was conducted by TVA, one of Quebec’s most-watched news channels (a QC equivalent of CTV). And if you watch the clip, the video editors, when Anaida mentions abortion, cut to an alternate shot (what in the industry is called b-roll) where you see Anaida’s face under a cross mounted on the exterior wall of what looks like a nearby school (most of Quebec’s schools, when they were originally built, were Catholic and had crosses mounted on their exterior walls. They’ve since abolished the Catholic school system in Quebec, but many schools have kept the crosses, for reasons which remain mysterious).
The message was clear: Anaida and Pierre Poilievre aren’t “religious zealot pro-lifers”, the kind that “oppressed” Quebecers in the past during what is commonly called in the province La Grande noirceur (“the Great darkness”), that period from 1944 until 1960 where government was Christian and families typically had multiple children.
That, in a nutshell, is the problem pro-lifers face in Quebec: a culture that has forsaken key elements of its past, those very things that made it possible for it to exist today. For if it weren’t for the very large families populating Quebec, and their piety and tenacity over the decades, there would simply be no francophone Quebec to speak of today.
In that video, we see in all its ugliness the adolescent and narcissistic ingratitude towards all the blessings God has conferred to the Québécois nation until 1960 when, like the Prodigal Son, Quebec decided collectively to “leave the Father’s house”, that is, to live without God, as if He didn’t exist.
Today, with a fertility rate of 1.49 children per woman (and the figure is most certainly much lower if you leave out the children had by mothers who have recently immigrated to Quebec) and 20 to 25 thousand yearly abortions, are Quebecers finally going to admit their spiritual and moral poverty and their need of God? Or are they going to persevere in their prideful, stubborn denial of reality, until they become extinct or largely irrelevant?
This is where Quebec Life Coalition comes in.
In a few weeks time, on January 18, I will be heading to Washington D. C. with two producers of Théovox, a Quebec alternative-media group. We will be soaking up the pro-life atmosphere of the annual D.C. March for Life which yearly draws hundreds of thousands of marchers. This annual March has undeniably played a role in the stunning and historical reversal of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that in 1973 forced U.S. States to allow most abortions.
The main reason for our visit is simple: we want to bring to Quebec the spirit that enabled the U.S. to overcome a major obstacle towards making their country abortion-free. Put simply, we believe that we must start a March for Life in Quebec, and this process begins by seeing how the gold-standard of such marches is conducted.
Incidentally, as I mentioned previously, Quebec public television will be filming a documentary on the reversal of the Roe decision and its possible impact on Quebec. I just received a call this morning confirming that they will be at the D.C. March and will be interviewing us and other pro-lifers at the D.C. March.
And what I told the Quebec public television researcher I will tell you now: Our experiences gathered during the D. C. March will enable us to put on the FIRST EVER Quebec March for Life, which, God willing, will be taking place in Quebec City on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
Making a moribund, abortion-stricken culture into a Culture of Life requires events that literally breath life into the body politic. Quebecers need to see that Pro-Life is the future, and not only the Past. They need to see that God is ahead of them, calling them forth to a fulfilling, bright familial, social, and national life, not somehow behind them, calling them back to the so-called “great darkness” they hear propagandized so often in their atheistic state-funded public schools.
My question to you is, will you help us? Will you first pray that the hearts of Quebecers will become receptive to our message of life and hope? Will you pray that our very First March for Life in Quebec is a success? Finally, will you give us the means to continue working in Quebec for Life, day in and day out, by donating to this advent’s Fundraiser?
We are 10 days away from Christmas, and we still have just over 11,000$ to raise. We thank all donors who have given so far. To those who have waited until now, please give today.
For Life,
Georges Buscemi
P.S.: Even if you are from out of province, Quebec City is a wonderful place to visit. Pencil-in June 1st 2024 on your calendar as a possible vacation date and make it a point to participate in the first ever Quebec March for Life. This is literally a historical event, one that may mark a true first step in exorcising Quebec’s resentment of its Christian, pro-life past.
Harnessing the power of media for Good
I'm Augustin Hamilton, head of the Quebec Life Coalition news site. For the past six years, I've been publishing daily articles on the QLC site to provide arguments for pro-life advocates, to convince pro-abortionists, to offer hope or to correct the prevailing media narrative.
More concretely, my job involves searching for articles on various websites, translating articles from English to French, editing, writing and reproducing articles that certain websites kindly allow us to re-use, and finally publishing texts by QLC members or supporters. I also help to prepare the weekly emails, which I sometimes have the pleasure of writing, as I did today. I also have to illustrate the articles with free images, which I can assure you is no easy task...
Every year, mainly through our translator Dominique, we translate nearly 700 texts and articles (including the Campaign Life Coalition newsletter).
I write around forty articles a year, mostly on Quebec and Canadian affairs.
We have also published dozens of original articles, letters from supporters and reprinted articles.
We need your support to continue our work in the coming year. Please give generously to our fundraising campaign, we hope to raise $15,000 by December 25th.
"It would be a strange aberration to want to devote one's life to works of the apostolate, if one did not put Catholic journalism at the top of the list of necessary and most effective instruments". - Mgr Philippe Perrier, The power of the press and its mission, 1941.
By 1941, the effect of the press on opinion and morals was already well known. Bishop Philippe Perrier, then Vicar General of the Diocese of Montreal, used the words of Pope Pius XI to underline the importance of the press: "The press," Pius XI told Spanish journalists, "has today become a sovereign power. Power for good, power also, unfortunately, for evil."
And how much stronger this power must have become with the spread of television and the Internet! For good, no doubt, but more for evil, as we can see in Quebec, where all the major media shamelessly promote abortion and many other vices.
At Quebec Life Coalition, our eminently Christian apostolate is to put an end to the brutal murder of unborn children. It would be illusory to try to reverse this situation if we did not exercise some form of journalism!
Please give what you can -- we're two weeks away from the end of our Advent fundraising campaign; we've already raised $2,257, and now have $12,743 to go. Thank you for helping us!
For Life,
Augustin Hamilton
A Christian Century Initiative
The other day I received an email blast from People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier, who wrote at length on how the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) didn’t have the courage to speak about the impact the 500,000 yearly immigrants have on the country’s infrastructure, housing, education and healthcare. The CPC, Bernier claimed, has to keep its mouth shut about the dire impact of immigration, lest it get demonized by the Liberals as “racist” during the next election and thereby lose its chance at governing the nation.
What Bernier himself failed to mention were the reasons why Canada needs immigration so badly: at 1.3 babies per woman (the lowest fertility rate in our history), Canada no longer has the number of workers it needs to pay for the services required by an aging population. Furthermore, immigration is only a bandage-like solution: though it does add to the pool of workers, it doesn’t really lower the average age of the host country, immigrants normally arriving with their aging parents and other adult family members. On top of that, immigrants are normally at first less productive than native-born Canadians, since they typically need many years to learn the language, customs, and skills required to work productively. Finally, we haven't even mentioned the morally questionable practise of first-world nations poaching the best and brightest from other countries, leaving the latter with only the poorest and least employable to run things at home.
What a country really needs then are babies, e.g. people who, once they grow up to be adults, are familiar with the country and are ready to contribute. So where are they? Here we have one piece of politically incorrect information that even the PPC dare not speak of too often, that is, that abortion kills about 100,000 babies per year, and, assuming that the socio-economic conditions have been roughly be the same in Canada since the end of the 2nd world war, contraception and sterilization every year prevents another 400,000 from being conceived. Adding these two numbers gives us 500,000 “disappeared” Canadians per year, almost exactly the number we “import” through immigration! In other words, without widespread abortion and contraception, Canada’s fertility rate would be around 3.5 children per woman, and Canada could easily reach 100 million people by 2100, without any immigration whatsoever.
The effects of abortion and contraception on our country are very real. These twin monsters are sapping the lifeblood of our country and leading to its dissolution. And here we turn to a second, unpopular truth about finding our way back to prosperity as a nation: financial incentives for families only have a very limited effect on the reproduction rates of nations who implement these types of policies. Throwing money at the problem is not the answer. Contraception use has to be curbed, and abortion outlawed as the murder it is. But for this to be implemented, Canada would have to return to its “first love”: it would have to be Christian again.
A Christian Century Initiative
Recently, Canadian high-level business owners, investors and non-profit managers have created a website and charity called the “Century Initiative”. In it, they promote mass immigration and some family-friendly policies as ways to increase the population of Canada to 100 million by 2100. These “elites” of Canadian business and philanthropy recognize that a country like Canada needs more people to both maintain its status internationally and its economic prosperity internally. What they do not, or will not recognize, however, is the fact that the secularist ideology promoted by the “progressive” left these last several decades has created the conditions that have led to our demographic winter. Isolated individuals living in a meaningless world of atoms bouncing around in a void will not commit to the sacrifices necessary to marry and found a family. They are more likely to adopt the maxim of the hedonists: “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” This secularist ideology poisons all our institutions, including our schools, which transform our youth into contracepting and aborting pleasure-seekers.
We therefore emphatically need a “Christian Century” initiative, putting God at the centre of our lives and enjoining the rest of the country to do the same. At Quebec Life Coalition, we know that our proposed solution is not easy, but we know that it is the true solution. It’s more than about being against abortion (which, of course, one must be) but finding the things that are worth loving, at the source and summit of which is God. To lose sight of Him means to lose sight of the meaning of our lives, and to tumble into hedonism and sterility, the terrible effects of which we are grappling with today.
We are in the Advent season; we await the coming of Christ. Unfortunately, even today, there are powers at work who, like Herod, are seeking to reduce the number of humans in the world. They claim a depopulated world is a happier, more enlightened world. They lie; in reality, it's just the opposite.
At Quebec Life Coalition, we've been fighting since 1989 to counter these attacks on life. It's literally the fight of our lives. In combatting these evils, we announce that the only "real politics" that counts is not the anti-human dogma of the so-called elite of this world, but one conducted by God-fearing people who care about the common good.
Please give generously. We thank all who have given so far. But we have a long ways to go. Our goal for this campaign, which ends on 25 December, is $15,000.
For Life,
Georges Buscemi