Wed Apr 13, 2022 – 6:04 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Conservative MP and leadership contender Leslyn Lewis promised that if elected leader of the party she will put forward “a bill protecting parental rights,” noting that Canada needs a government system that supports families instead of “tearing them down.”
“Good parents have unconditional love for their children. The family should be the safest place to have the hardest conversations,” Lewis wrote in a message posted to her campaign website yesterday.
“The government must not interfere with the rights of loving parents to raise their children in accordance with their own values. I will enshrine rights that protect parents into law.”
Lewis noted directly that the “government doesn’t love your kids,” adding it “can’t” do so.
“Government is not a person; it is hardly even a collective of people. Government is a system, and it can be a good system, or a bad system, but it is never more than that,” Lewis noted.
“A good government – when it is running well – also provides justice when families and communities falter. This is why I would put in stronger protections for victims of domestic abuse, human trafficking,
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