Mon Oct 31, 2022 – 3:20 pm EDTMon Oct 31, 2022 – 3:25 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Regular readers of this column will know that I was decidedly ambivalent about Pierre Poilievre becoming leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Poilievre has consistently voted against all pro-life legislation (although he was pro-life when he was younger); he voted for the Liberal “conversion therapy ban” in both its iterations despite the fact that it is most invasive and deliberate attack on religious liberty in a generation; he openly campaigned on being pro-abortion, accusing Jean Charest in one leadership debate of not being pro-choice enoughfor voting for Bill C-43 in 1991. Poilievre styled himself the “freedom candidate,” but he was also pretty selective about who that freedom applied to.
But it is only fair to point out that a couple of months in, there have been a few encouraging developments. The first is Poilievre’s staff selections, including his appointment of Ben Woodfinden, a notable social conservative commentator, as director of communications. Woodfinden has been outspoken on the euthanasia issue and has defended an expansive approach to social conservatism in a number of national publications (see this National Post
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