Whether you are a delegate to the convention, a party member, or a non-party member, YOU can help us get our pro-life policies over the finish line!

We are pleased to tell you that thousands of RightNow supporters signed up to be delegates at the 2021 Conservative Party of Canada Policy Convention and that many of those who registered have won their delegate selection meetings to be able to attend as voting delegates.

However, we need to all do our part (those who are delegates, non-delegate party members, and even non-party members) to help ensure that those pro-life delegates have pro-life policies to vote on at the convention.

The Conservative Party of Canada has a policy development process where individual electoral district associations (EDA) - riding boards - can propose various policy amendments. If a policy amendment received support from three other EDAs (one of which was from another province or territory), then those policies advance to the next stage of the process; 196 policies are now advancing to the next stage.

During this next stage, each EDA can cast up to 25 votes for a variety of policies. The 30 most popular policies out of the 196 proposed policies will go to Convention to be voted on by our pro-life delegates.

What can you do (whether you are a voting delegate or not)?

Please contact your EDA here and ask them to vote for both of the following pro-life policies:

1. Delete policy 70: ideas-lab.ca/final-policy-submissions/forums/topic/delete-70/
   
   
2. Late-term abortion restriction: ideas-lab.ca/final-policy-submissions/forums/topic/m-criminal-justice-110-child-protection/

***The EDAs are casting their votes NOW on the 196 policy proposals so act today to help ensure that the pro-life policy proposals make it into the top 30!***

Some facts to include in your email:

• The current policy 70 (A Conservative government will not support legislation to regulate abortion) is not reflective of the majority of Conservative voters:
  
  
  • 68% of 2019 Conservative voters support legally restricting late-term abortion - Angus Reid, 2020
    
    
• The current policy 70 (A Conservative government will not support legislation to regulate abortion) is in contravention of other Conservative policies:
  
  
  • Policy No. 7: free votes on matters of conscience (including abortion)
  • Policy No. 73: defunding abortion overseas
  • Policy No. 81: condemnation of sex-selective abortions
    
    
• 70% of Canadians support legally restricting late-term abortion (including 60% in Ontario and 67% in Quebec) - Dart & Maru/Blue, 2020
  
  
• 39% of 2019 Liberal voters and 36% of 2019 NDP voters support legally restricting late-term abortion - Angus Reid, 2020
  
  
• 84% of Canadians support legally restricting sex-selective abortion (including 84% in Ontario and 82% in Quebec) - Dart & Maru/Blue, 2020
  
  
• 61% of 2019 Bloc Quebecois voters would be more likely to vote for a political party that promised to legally restrict sex-selective abortion - ONEPersuades, 2020
  
  
• 47% of women aged 18-34 would be more likely to vote for a political party that promised to legally restrict sex-selective abortion as opposed to 6% who would be less likely to do so - ONEPersuades, 2020
  
  
• The only time the Conservative Party of Canada won a majority (and increased their vote and seat count in the GTA) was in 2011 when the party confirmed its pro-life position on defunding abortion overseas
  
  
• In the 1988 Supreme Court of Canada Morgentaler decision that struck down the 1969 abortion law and left Canada without any abortion laws, the following justices ruling on that case stated:
  
  
  • “I am of the view that the protection of the foetus is and, as the Court Appeal observed, always has been, a valid objective in criminal law…I think S. 1 of the Charter authorises reasonable limits to be put on a woman’s right having regard to the state interested in the protection of the fetus.” - Justices Beetz and Estey
    
    
  • "(…) reasons for having an abortion would, however, be the proper subject of inquiry at the later stages of her pregnancy when the state’s compelling interest in the protection of the foetus would justify it in prescribing conditions.” - Justice Bertha Wilson (the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Canada)

Here is the list of EDA contacts: 

(***CLICK ON THE RIDING NAME TO EMAIL THE RIDING CONTACT***)