MLA Pat Finnigan
Liberal Party, Kent North, NB
Bio
CLC rating: Pro-abortion, anti-parental rights, pro-euthanasia
Rating Comments: Under anti-life-and-family leader Susan Holt, the New Brunswick Liberal Party became officially pro-abortion and anti-parental rights when, at the Party's 2024 Convention, resolutions were passed to extend public funding to abortions committed outside hospitals at private, for-profit killing centres. Convention delegates also voted to eviscerate the current PC government's pro-parental rights Policy 713, which requires parental consent before transgender "pronouns" can be used to describe their children at school.
As further testament to the party's pro-abortion views, both of the previous Liberal Party leaders, Brian Gallant and Kevin Vickers, were aggressively pro-abortion. Gallant banned pro-lifers from running as Liberal candidates and repealed a requirement that hospital abortions required a sign-off by two doctors that the killing of the unborn child was "medically necessary". Both Gallant and Vickers strongly supported taxpayer funding of for profit, private abortuaries.
While he was a federal MP in Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, Mr. Finnigan voted in March 2021 to dramatically expand the euthanasia killing regime in Canada under Bill C-7, even extending it to people suffering from mental illness alone. In June 2021, MP Finnigan voted against pro-life Bill C-233, introduced by Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall, to outlaw the horrific practice of sex-selective abortion, in which unborn babies are killed for no other reason than their sex. Later that month, revealed himself to be an enemy of parental rights, and science, by voting to pass Bill C-6, legislation that will throw parents in jail for up to 5 years if they dare to affirm their gender-confused child in their biological sex.
As further testament to the party's pro-abortion views, both of the previous Liberal Party leaders, Brian Gallant and Kevin Vickers, were aggressively pro-abortion. Gallant banned pro-lifers from running as Liberal candidates and repealed a requirement that hospital abortions required a sign-off by two doctors that the killing of the unborn child was "medically necessary". Both Gallant and Vickers strongly supported taxpayer funding of for profit, private abortuaries.
While he was a federal MP in Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, Mr. Finnigan voted in March 2021 to dramatically expand the euthanasia killing regime in Canada under Bill C-7, even extending it to people suffering from mental illness alone. In June 2021, MP Finnigan voted against pro-life Bill C-233, introduced by Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall, to outlaw the horrific practice of sex-selective abortion, in which unborn babies are killed for no other reason than their sex. Later that month, revealed himself to be an enemy of parental rights, and science, by voting to pass Bill C-6, legislation that will throw parents in jail for up to 5 years if they dare to affirm their gender-confused child in their biological sex.
Position: Minister of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries (61st Legislature)
First elected (yyyy.mm.dd): 2024.10.21
Previous Occupation: retired Liberal Member of Parliament
Percentage in last election: 44.8% (2024)
Victory margin last election: 7.7% (2024)
Religion / Faith: unknown
Contact
Parliamentary Office
Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 6000
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 5H1
Tel: (506) 453-2506 (general info.)
Fax: (506) 453-7154 (general fax)
Here is Pat Finnigan's voting record relating to life and family issues:
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Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Pat Finnigan on 2024.
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| Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)? | -- |
| 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) | Yes, all circumstances (based on party policy) |
| Will you uphold the current law of not funding abortion in private facilities? | No (based on party policy) |
| Will you support measures to stop funding abortions with taxpayers money in all New Brunswick hospitals? | No (based on party policy) |
| 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? | -- |
| 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 (based on party policy) |
| 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? (Note: 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 (based on voting record as a federal MP) |
| 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? | -- |
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