In 2006, when pro-abortion MP Josée Verner (Louis-Saint-Laurent) was Minister of International Co-Operation, she approved a grant of $18 million for International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) to be used for purposes of “sexual and reproductive health”. That is, to support one of IPPF’s objectives which is to extend abortion and population control worldwide. IPPF also adamantly opposes a physician’s freedom of conscience on abortion/euthanasia.
This Canadian grant to IPPF was for a three-year period ($6 million per year) and it is now up for renewal (see REALity, Jan./Feb. 2008, p. 12, “Tax Money Still Tossed Around with Abandon”).
Conservative MP Brad Trost (Saskatoon Humboldt) has drafted a petition objecting to Canadian taxpayers’ money being given to this pro-abortion organization, which, Mr. Trost states, also pays its chief executive close to $500,000 annual salary to promote this destruction of human life world wide.
Not to be outdone, a University of Saskatchewan student’s union vice president, Chris Stachoff, has drawn up a counter-petition to support Canadian funding of IPPF. This is not surprising since student unions in universities across Canada have distinguished themselves lately by their zealous efforts to stamp out pro-life campus groups, which dare to put forward independent views on life issues. That is, Canadian universities now are hot beds of politically correct thought, instead of centres for intellectual growth and widening horizons, as they have been previously.
The pro-abortion student union’s petition has been taken up by noted single issue Liberal feminist MP Anita Neville (Winnipeg South-Centre) and NDP MP Megan Leslie (Halifax), both always keen to support abortion and oppose any conservative initiative for any reason.
It would be appreciated if our members would help with Mr. Trost’s petition which can be obtained at
http://thesheaf.com/2009/12/ussu-garners-national-attention/. Scroll to the end of the article.
If you do not have access to the Internet, please phone/write/fax our national office to have a copy forwarded to you.
MP Trost has made some helpful suggestions about completing this petition:
There is no deadline for returning petitions.
Petitions do not need all 25 signatures; they will be presented with others to meet the 25 signature requirement.
NO POSTAGE IS REQUIRED for mailing to the House of Commons
Petitions cannot be printed on the back of another document, although signatures can be continued on the back of a petition.
Only signatures of Canadian residents are permitted; there is no minimum age requirement.
The address may either be the petitioner’s full home address, the city and province, or the province and postal code. As with the signature, the address must be written directly on the document and not pasted, taped, photocopied or otherwise transferred to it.
Mr. Trost has also requested that letters be sent to the following, to object to the renewal of the grant to IPPF.
The Honourable Bev Oda
Minister of International Co-Operation
House of Common
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Fax: 613-992-2794
The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2
Fax: 613-941-6900
With copies to Mr. Trost:
Room 113?Justice Building?
House of Commons?
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Fax: (613) 996-9899
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