Campaign Life Coalition welcomes Scheer’s resignation, hopeful of strong pro-life and pro-family replacement
Campaign Life Coalition welcomes Scheer’s resignation, hopeful of strong pro-life and pro-family replacement
Toronto, December 12, 2019 - Campaign Life Coalition welcomes Andrew Scheer's announcement that he will step down as leader of the Conservative Party. CLC believes the Conservatives lost the election because Andrew Scheer betrayed the Party’s socially-conservative base, and essentially ran on a socially liberal platform, thus suppressing the party’s “small-c” conservative base sufficiently enough to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Scheer abandoned his socially conservative principles as leader and promised to "ensure" his pro-life caucus members would not be able to bring forward the issue, and that he would continue Trudeau’s policy of funding foreign abortions with taxpayer money.
"We've heard from many supporters who were looking for alternatives to the Conservatives or staying home on election days because they were displeased with Andrew Scheer as leader," said Jeff Gunnarson, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. "While many in the media say that the Conservatives were limited to their base, we believe that many more pro-life, pro-family and religious Canadians would have voted Conservative if the leader and party gave them a real reason to, other than the fact they were not Justin Trudeau. Scheer’s poorly articulated and clearly uncomfortable position of claiming to be personally pro-life while vowing to not touch the issue upset his socially conservative base, confused many people, and was seen as disingenuous.”
CLC looks forward to encouraging its supporters to get involved in the Conservative Party leadership race, whenever that may occur. In 2017, more than 11,000 CLC supporters became party members during the leadership race. We hope to build on that impact in the campaign if there is a proudly pro-life, pro-family champion who runs for leadership.
About Campaign Life Coalition
Campaign Life Coalition is a national, non-profit organization involved in political action and advocacy for legal and cultural change in Canada with respect to protecting human life and the family. It is non-partisan and encourages voting based on principles, not party. For more information visit www.campaignlifecoalition.com.
Media Contacts:
Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life Coalition, 647-638-5433
Jeff Gunnarson, Campaign Life Coalition, 416-204-9749 ext. 249
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