Voting Records

MLA Nathan Cooper

United Conservative Party, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, AB

Bio

Nathan Cooper
Not Supportable
Not Supportable
CLC rating: Pro-abortion, Anti-traditional marriage
Rating Comments: The candidate has not yet responded to CLC's 2023 provincial election questionnaire. According to a July 27, 2017 Calgary Sun article, Nathan Cooper said that he accepts the status quo of abortion-on-demand and taxpayers being forced to fund medically unnecessary abortions through the health care system. Furthermore, he indicated that he believes schools should keep parents in the dark if their children join a controversial gay-straight alliance (GSA) club in their school. A GSA is a gay pride student club where kids tend to agitate for normalization of the homosexual lifestyle, and to demonize teachers and other students who believe in traditional marriage. Cooper said he planned to march in Calgary’s homosexual Pride Parade, a 180 degree turn from his once noble belief in traditional marriage and family. This is a sad development for Cooper, who used to be solidly pro-life.
First elected (yyyy.mm.dd): 05-May-15
Percentage in last election: 75.1% (2023), 78.60%
Victory margin last election: 56.2% (2023), 66.80%

Contact

Nathan Cooper
Parliamentary Office
325 Legislature Building
10800-97 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta
T5K 2B6
Tel: 780-427-2464
Fax: 780-422-9553
Constituency Offices
Box 3909, 4905 B - 50 Avenue
Olds, Alberta
T4H 1P6
Tel: 403.556.3132
Nathan Cooper

Here is Nathan Cooper's voting record relating to life and family issues:

Votes, Surveys and Policy Decision Vote Score
Bill 24, An Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances
This atrocious bill, sponsored by the socialist NDP government's Education Minister David Eggen, makes it illegal for school teachers to inform parents of their own children's involvement in homosexualist/transsexualist "GSA" clubs, effectively turning schools into hiding places where children can lead sexual double-lives without their own parents' knowledge. The bill usurps parents' primary rights to direct the moral formation and sexual behaviour of their own children by treating parents as the enemy, inculcating distrust of parents and instigating an attitude of collusion between hired school teachers and other people's children, behind parents' backs. This anti-parent bill passed 42 - 23 upon third reading. [November 15, 2017]
No ok
Bill 9, to transform taxpayer-owned public sidewalks near abortion facilities into NO FREE SPEECH ZONES
This unconstitutional, totalitarian law, introduced by the communistic NDP, criminalizes peaceful pro-life expression on taxpayer-owned public property within a radius of up to 150m near abortion facilities. Under this gag law, even silent prayer is outlawed near abortion facilities and people will face up to 1 year in jail and/or be fined up to $10,000. Even freedom of the press is restricted by this law within the No Free Speech Zone. More babies will be killed at the hands of abortionists as a result of these No Free Speech Zones because pro-life sidewalk counsellors are no longer permitted to speak to the mothers entering the abortuary about the choice of adoption, nor to offer support with a crisis pregnancy, nor even to offer scientific information about fetal development to demonstrate that her baby really is a human being. The bill passed by a vote of 45 Yeas to 1 Nay. The UCP MLAs were ordered by Jason Kenney NOT to vote against this horrendous bill, nor even to speak against it during debate. Kenney and many of the UCP MLAs fled the legislature during the vote in order to avoid having to take a stand. [Passed 3rd reading May 30, 2018]
Abstained under order of Jason Keneney bad
Nathan Cooper

Here are quotes from Nathan Cooper on various life and family issues:

On his disavowal of the pro-life and pro-traditional marriage statements that he had made in the past, and his new embrace of abortion-on-demand and homosexualist marriage:  "Those statements I made then don’t reflect my views and values today." [Calgary Sun, 'United Conservative leadership hopeful Brian Jean and interim party leader Nathan Cooper sign up for Calgary Pride parade', July 27, 2017]

On his beliefs that parents shouldn't be told if their children join a gay-straight alliance club at school:  "We shouldn't be outing gay kids." [Calgary Sun, 'United Conservative leadership hopeful Brian Jean and interim party leader Nathan Cooper sign up for Calgary Pride parade', July 27, 2017]

Nathan Cooper

Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Nathan Cooper 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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