Torontonians might recognize Brad Trost, the Conservative MP who just made abortion an election issue again
It’s like clockwork: at some point during a federal election campaign, the Conservative party’s position social issues crop up, despite Stephen Harper’s valiant game of PR Whac-a-Mole. Today, the mole that finally got away from him was abortion. Saskatchewan MP Brad Trost was recorded telling a group of anti-choice voters that they were responsible for getting Planned Parenthood defunded by the Canadian government.
From the Toronto Star:
In the speech, a recording of which was obtained by the Liberals and given to the Toronto Star and Le Devoir, Trost claims a number of parliamentary victories for the pro-life movement, including a decision to deny funding for the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Trost said he and “many” other MPs helped spearhead efforts to round up petitions “to defund Planned Parenthood.”
“Let me just tell you, and I cannot tell you specifically how we used it, but those petitions were very, very useful, and they were part of what we used to defund Planned Parenthood, because it has been absolute disgrace that that organization and several others like it have been receiving one penny of Canadian taxpayers’ dollars,” Trost said.
There’s a Toronto connection to this story, too—and not just because Toronto Liberal MPs like Dr. Carolyn Bennett and Michael Ignatieff are all over the story. Trost was the same Conservative MP who, a few years back, revealed that the Conservative caucus was deeply divided about Pride Toronto getting funding under the Marquee Tourism program. He also said that the LGBTQ festival would not get any more money from the feds (which it didn’t).
At a media event earlier this morning, Harper said that reopening the abortion debate was something his government would take no part in, and something he personally would ensure didn’t happen. While he’s busy not doing anything on that front, perhaps he could he reward Brad Trost with a cabinet position: Minister of State for Social Issue Missteps.
• Anti-abortion groups shaped Tory funding policy on Planned Parenthood [Toronto Star]
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At a media event earlier this morning, Harper said that reopening the abortion debate was something his government would take no part in, and something he personally would ensure didn’t happen. While he’s busy not doing anything on that front, perhaps he could he reward Brad Trost with a cabinet position: Minister of State for Social Issue Missteps.
• Anti-abortion groups shaped Tory funding policy on Planned Parenthood [Toronto Star]
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For crying out loud, give it a rest already. PM Harper cannot & should not be held accountable for any ridiculous idiot, that has his own personal agenda.
Enough already. Enough.
Are you serious? Of course Harper is responsible. He’s a control freak, who stage-manages every single aspect of his party that he can.
What happened here is, one of his guys went rogue, thought he was speaking to a secure group, and let something slip that he shouldn’t have.
There are a great many Canadians who are not aware that our tax dollars are going to fund abortion. Whether you think that abortion is good or bad, many see that in most cases abortion is done when the mother’s life is not in danger and so it is nothing more than elective surgery. Many are beginning to question whether our tax dollars should go to fund elective surgeries. When there are people waiting months for MRIs and other necessary treatments, is it really that hard to see that perhaps tax dollars should not be funding abortions?
It should be an election issue (albeit a provincial issue). Can’t blame the Conservative Government for being frugal with how they spend our tax dollars.
One is amazed at the hysteria that is evident among so many of our media elite and supposed intelligensia whenever it emerges that someone has publicly questioned the “status quo” regarding abortion. That “status quo” in Canada means this: Killing an baby is legal right up to the moment of birth. As long as one foot is in the womb it is not considered infanticide. And those who question the rightness of this are considered extreme? Surely the extremists are those who defend this situation.
Nobody WANTS an abortion. Nobody celebrates an abortion. It is a scary, tough, tragic decision that is made by a woman. Men should shut up until such a time as babies shoot out their penises. What would compound the tragedy of an abortion is making them hard to obtain or illegal. This would compel women to mutilate themselves. They do this in other countries. RU486 – morning after pill would seem to be a good choice however medically safe abortion services must be available to any woman who needs it. And planned parenthood not only STOPS unwanted children being born in overpopulated places – it prevents STD’s and provides valuable contraceptive information to women. It should be fully funded without prejudice.
Trost is a religious lunatic!
The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien told the Vatican that there was to be no cross erected over the Canadian Parliament buildings figuratively speaking; when the Pope demanded the Prime Minister go against gay rights. An Alberta bishop had the audacity to say that The Canadian Prime Minister would go to hell for going against the church. Such outrageous evil threats. The Right Honourable Prime Minister in return; basically told the Pope to go to Hell! The Honourable Irwin Cotler, Canadian Minister of Justice, stood for equal rights for the gay community. With reference to protecting the children: The Honourable Hedy Fry, member of the Canadian Liberal Parliament, who happens to be a doctor who delivered many babies; spoke eloquently to defend the rights of babies being born and stated that she was in fact defending their rights by speaking on behalf of equal rights for the children and youth of the future — defending their integrity and dignity.
Good on him…abortion is a crime against humanity