Hudak and choice

— 10.04.2011 10:00 AM

As a number of prominent Canadians just highlighted in a press conference, Tim Hudak wants to defund abortion.  Full stop.

If questioned – and he will make it very hard for any reporter to question him on abortion today, believe me – Hudak will say it isn’t a priority for him.  But he’s never renounced his promise to defund abortion.

Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, you deserve to know where the leaders stand on this issue.  By vacillating, by dodging microphones, Hudak should be condemned by both sides.  Both sides – and there are good people on both sides of the issue – deserve to hear Hudak finally say where he stands.

Here and here and here and here and here is some of the commentary on this issue, over the past few months.

And here is Hudak’s position, in black and white, which has never changed:


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Hudak fan comment on Sun web site about today’s column

— 10.04.2011 08:30 AM

“Kinsella is a P.O.S. professional liar in the pay of the Gliberal Party.
And if his home is ever burglarized not only do I hope that the burglars use his toothbrush as if it were the probe space-aliens use to examine beamed-up hillbillies but at the very least the burglars put sand in his vaseline.”

Column here. If you were to guess comments aren’t moderated, you’d be right!


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In today’s Sun: on Hudak’s (and others’) big mistake

— 10.04.2011 06:24 AM

On the weekend, PC campaigns started to distribute leaflets that need to be seen to be believed. One was lifted entirely from an advertisement that ran in the Toronto Sun and the National Post. The ad featured a wide-eyed child under the banner: “Please! don’t confuse me.” It falsely suggested that the Ontario sex-ed curriculum taught children how to be “transsexual, transgendered, intersexed or two-spirited.”

To its credit, the Post apologized “unreservedly” for the ad after it ran, saying: “the ad exceeded the bounds of civil discourse” because of its manipulative use of imagery and “in the suggestion that such teaching ‘corrupts’ children.” The Post declared that it would donate the money it received for the ad to a lesbian, gay or transgendered cause.

(I strongly objected to the Sun running a variation of the same ad. Defending the ad as an expression of free speech, to me, is wholly unconvincing. The Sun has frequently refused to run advertising in the past, for all sorts of reasons. Therefore, I too plan to donate what I receive from the Sun this week to an LGBT cause).

Despite the controversy — or perhaps because of it — the contemptible ad was reproduced in its entirety by one PC candidate in Willowdale, complete with a statement indicating that the pamphlet had been officially authorized by the Ontario PC campaign.


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