Toronto mayoral by-election: who deserves your vote?
Dear Friend,
The by-election to choose the next Mayor of Toronto is just days away, on Monday, June 26th.
With over 100 candidates in the race, the task of trying to find out who is worthy of your pro-life vote can be truly overwhelming!
We've decided to highlight three mayoral candidates, each of whom represents a different set of promises and principles, some good and some bad, which are important for pro-life and pro-family voters to know about.
The Good: Reginald Tull
Pro-life, pro-free speech
Reginald was a candidate for Mayor of Toronto in last October's municipal elections. At that time, he gave CLC perfect answers to our election survey.
Mr. Tull is running again, and CLC is pleased to endorse him as the only known pro-life candidate in the Toronto mayoral election. We encourage you to vote for him.
The Hopeful: Anthony Furey
Champion of free speech
Anthony Furey is a well-known Canadian journalist who for many years was a columnist for the Toronto Sun. He is currently an executive with True North News (on leave during his mayoral election campaign).
Furey has not responded to CLC's election survey, so his views on abortion are unknown. However, as a longtime journalist we know some things about his approach to social conservative issues.
As far as we know, Furey has never been hostile to pro-lifers. In fact, he has been sympathetic to the free speech rights of pro-life Canadians. Furthermore, he has criticized the liberal media for its biased and hostile coverage of pro-life politicians, for example, when the media attacked MPP Sam Oosterhoff for attending a pro-life event.
In fact, Furey was respectful when he interviewed CLC's Director of Political Operations, Jack Fonseca, for the now-defunct Sun News TV, where Furey was a TV host.
Another sign that Furey may be sympathetic to the pro-life movement is the fact that True North, the news media organization where he works, has been very favourable to pro-life and pro-family views.
In particular, True North's critique of Transgender ideology has been extensive and refreshing in a media landscape that often encourages the anti-family, child-abusive gender-cult.
In the mayoral race, one of Furey's key policy platforms is his commitment to ending the so-called "Safe Injection Site" boondoggle that left-leaning politicians have foisted on Toronto residents. These sites, sometimes called "heroin shooting galleries", do not attempt to rehabilitate drug abusers, but rather to provide a "safe space" where they can simply continue abusing drugs. According to Furey, this left-wing approach has led to more overdose deaths and harm to the surrounding communities, not less.
This is an indication that Furey can put common sense ahead of socialist ideologies and "progressive programs" that don't work.
Although he has never responded to CLC's pro-life election questionnaire, these common-sense and free-speech affirming aspects of Furey's background and electoral platform make his candidacy stand out from scores of other candidates.
And, as the candidate in 3rd place in the polls and gaining momentum, Furey offers a substantial alternative to...
The Bad: Olivia Chow
For over 30 years, Olivia Chow has been doing her part to spearhead the moral decay of Toronto and of Canada as a whole, pushing her socialistic, pro-death, anti-family agenda as a Toronto City Councillor from 1992-98, and then again as an NDP MP on Parliament Hill from 2006 to 2014.
Disturbingly, Chow is currently the front-runner, by a large margin, in the Toronto mayoral race.
Putting it plainly, Chow would play the role of destroyer in Toronto.
It is difficult to express the amount of damage that Olivia Chow and other "socialist-think" politicians have caused to Canada's moral fabric through persistent efforts to devalue, debase, and destroy the precious, God-given treasures of the sanctity of life, the protection of the vulnerable, and the familial communion among fathers, mothers, and children.
But if you go to Chow's mayoral campaign website, you won't find anything about her anti-life, anti-family agenda; after all, that would scare off many ordinary, non-radical Torontonians whose votes she is seeking.
Nevertheless, a few examples of her bad actions as an NDP MP should illustrate the danger she represents if elected as Toronto's next mayor:
- In 2010, Olivia Chow voted in favour of Bill C-384, which sought to legalize euthanasia & assisted suicide. A later version of this bill did become law, and we're witnessing euthanasia's contagious expansion to ensnare ever more vulnerable Canadians.
- In 2010, the rabidly pro-abortion Chow supported a Motion to expand abortion and contraception throughout Africa, at Canadian taxpayer expense.
- In 2012, Chow voted against Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth's principled Motion 312 to study whether a child in the womb is a human being based on the preponderance of evidence from modern medical science.
- Also in 2012, Chow voted in favour of the reckless, transgender "Bathroom Bil" (C-279) which, now fully realized under the Justin Trudeau government's "gender identity" and "gender expression" regime, puts young girls and women at risk by creating a counterfeit, legal "right" for men to access women's bathrooms and changerooms based on their "gender identity".
Under no circumstances should pro-life, pro-family, or socially conservative voters in Toronto cast a ballot for Olivia Chow.
Her immoral stances make her ineligible for consideration.
We hope this analysis is of some help to you.
God bless.
Jeff Gunnarson
National President
Campaign Life Coalition