Provincial Voting Records

MLA Martin Long

United Conservative Party, West Yellowhead, AB

Bio

Martin Long
Caution
CLC rating: Educable
Rating Comments: The candidate has not yet responded to CLC's 2023 provincial election questionnaire. In 2016, Long gave a strong defense of Christian teaching on abortion and homosexuality, even suggesting that it would be wrong for Christians to vote for politicans who support these behaviours that are so clearly condemned in the Bible. Once the liberal media complex found his statement on social media, the biased left-wing propagandists who pose as journalists orchestrated a hate campaign against Long, demanding he be fired as a candidate by Jason Kenney. The ages old smear campaign of the media did not succeed in getting him fired, but they did extract their pound of flesh in so far as they bullied Long into publicly repudiating his Christian belief in marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and ever pledging to vote for homosexual "marriage" himself, if elected. Although the media didn't get him to recant his belief in the sanctity of human life, they did extract a promise that he would not "re-open the abortion debate".
Previous Occupation: Operator for Alberta Newsprint in Whitecourt for nine years
Percentage in last election: 71.3% (2023), 68.3%
Victory margin last election: 42.6% (2023), 47.80%
Religion / Faith: unknown

Contact

Martin Long
Parliamentary Office
513-B Legislature Building
10800 - 97 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta
T5K 2B6
Tel: 780.638.3015
Fax: 587-466-0463
Constituency Offices
5005 - 6th Avenue
Edson, Alberta
T7E 1A5
Tel: 780.712.7790
Fax: 587.466.0463

Here is Martin Long's voting record relating to life and family issues:

Votes, Surveys and Policy Decision Vote Score
Caution
Committee Meeting Record: Motion # 40, made to the Select Special Public Health Act Review Committee, moving that the committee recommend in its report to the Alberta Legislative Assembly that the Public Health Act be amended to explicitly guarantee province-wide access to abortion as a "right"
Moved by radical pro-abortion NDP MLA Kathleen Ganley as being representative of the view of her Party, Motion # 40 sought to impose pro-abortion politics on the Public Health Act by inserting an explicit assertion of a "right to access abortion" throughout Alberta. This maneuver was to be accomplished by convincing her fellow members of the Select Special Public Health Act Review Committee to vote to recommend her Motion to the Legislature, which has the power to amend the Public Health Act. Fortunately, the pro-child-killing Motion was defeated when the majority United Conservative Party committee members voted against it. [Defeated by a vote of 7 to 4 on September 30, 2020]
No ok
Committee Meeting Record: Motion # 39, made to the Select Special Public Health Act Review Committee, moving that the committee recommend in its report to the Alberta Legislative Assembly that the Public Health Act be amended to explicitly guarantee province-wide access to euthanasia as a "right"
Moved by pro-euthanasia NDP MLA Sarah Hoffman, Motion # 39 sought to impose euthanasia politics on the Public Health Act by inserting an explicit assertion of a "right to access medical assistance in dying" throughout Alberta. This maneuver was to be accomplished by convincing her fellow members of the Select Special Public Health Act Review Committee to vote to recommend her Motion to the Legislature, which has the power to amend the Public Health Act. Fortunately, the medical homicide Motion was defeated when the majority United Conservative Party committee members voted against it. [Defeated by a vote of 7 to 4 on September 30, 2020]
No ok

Here are quotes from Martin Long on various life and family issues:

In a 2016 social media comment, Long expressed his principled, Christian beliefs about the immorality of child-murder (abortion), so-called homosexual 'marriage', and opposition to socialism:  “...I would suggest that by virtue of voting for or even defending a government which: supports gay marriage although biblically marriage is between man and woman, endorses a minimum living wage although biblically a man who chooses not to work shall not eat, and says that if you are pro life you can not represent their party although biblically we are not supposed to murder, then one may need to self-examine to figure out if they are ‘Liberal’ or ‘Christian,’” Long wrote. [Facebook, 2016]

After the anti-Christian, left-wing media mounted a hate campaign against Long for his support of natural marriage, Long caved to the smear campaign and publicly recanted his support for biblical teaching on marriage, now professing loyalty to the homosexual agenda:  "Same-sex marriage has been the law of the land for over 13 years. I believe that people have the right to marry whom they please. I would support this as a legislator as I do now..” [Star Edmonton, 'Edmonton United Conservative candidate said gay marriage, abortion and minimum-wage support aren’t biblical', April 8, 2019]

After being viciously attacked by liberal journalists over his pro-life beliefs, and undoubtedly also due to pressure from Jason Kenney, Long aped the UCP Leader's cowardly mantra that he would not re-open the debate on whether we, as a society, should allow abortionists to keep killing babies in the womb:  “(UCP Leader) Jason Kenney has been clear that we will not be reopening this debate. I support the party’s position on this issue….Albertans are tired of being distracted by these divisive debates. I understand that as an elected official, I am responsible for representing all constituents who hold a wide variation of views. I am committed to respecting the rights of all Albertans, as is the United Conservative Party” [Star Edmonton, 'Edmonton United Conservative candidate said gay marriage, abortion and minimum-wage support aren’t biblical', April 8, 2019]

Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Martin Long on 2023.

Question Response
Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)? no response
Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? (note: a surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother but but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion. e.g. in cases of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer) no response
Will you support measures to stop funding abortions with taxpayers' money in Alberta? no response
Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of the child in the womb and the alternatives to abortion? no response
Will you protect the rights of parents to educate their children according to their faith in matters of moral principles and beliefs concerning abortion, contraception and homosexuality? no response
Will you support legislation to protect the right of health care workers who refuse to participate in procedures which are in violation of their religious or conscientious beliefs? no response
Will you oppose euthanasia and instead support measures to promote “palliative care”, the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life for terminally ill patients and those with disabilities? *Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without that person’s consent, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons. no response
Will you work to repeal Bill 24, the NDP legislation which requires schools to keep it secret from parents if their child has joined a gay pride club at school, a.k.a. Gay-Straight Alliance clubs? no response

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