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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pro-abortion government says it remains committed to stripping pro-life organizations of their charitable tax status, a move which has been blasted by Canada’s top pro-life group.
On December 2, during a regular question and answer session in the House of Commons, pro-abortion New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Leah Gazan asked Liberal Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, what the status was regarding “the Liberal Party’s 2021 election platform [promise] to no longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations, such as crisis pregnancy centers.”
Freeland replied to Gazan by saying “our government remains committed to no longer provide charity status to anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counselling to women about their rights and about the options available to them at all stages of a pregnancy.”
She also noted that “tax privileges provided to charities” under Canada’s Income Tax Act are “are required to follow a particular set of rules.”
Gazan then asked what steps the government has taken to “define an anti-abortion organization,” as well as what “stakeholders and interested parties have
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