Democracy has nothing to do with it (Canada).  It’s up to the liberal-leftist political elites who think right, er, left, designated and appointed to the politburo by Liberals.  They make the decisions.  Our hands are tied.  Sorry.  Better luck in some other country. 

  Dear Mr. Johannesen:

On behalf of the Prime Minister, I would like to acknowledge receipt of your recent correspondence regarding the Order of Canada.  We have noted your concern and are pleased to have this opportunity to respond.

The Government is not involved in either the deliberations or decisions with respect to which individuals are appointed to the Order of Canada.  It is Rideau Hall that approves the final appointments based on the recommendations of the Advisory Council of the Order of Canada, which is chaired by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

With respect to specific appointments to the Order, the Prime Minister’s preference is for the Order of Canada to be an honour that unifies and brings Canadians together.  Clearly, this appointment did not do that.

To further express your concerns, we would recommend that you contact the Governor General’s office directly at:

Rideau Hall
1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1

Phone: (613) 993-8200
Toll-free: 1-800-465-6890
Fax: (613) 998-8760

E-mail: info@gg.ca

Once again, thank you for taking the time to write.

Sincerely,

Susan I. Ross
Executive Correspondence Officer
for the Prime Minister’s Office

/sv

>>>  From : Joel Johannesen ProudToBeCanadian.ca     Received : 29 Jun 2008 09:10:28 PM   >>>

The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, P.C., M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada

Mr. Prime Minister:

I understand there is the possibility of the abortionist Henry Morgentaler surreptitiously getting awarded the honor of the Order of Canada on July 1.  (http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/index/weblog/8932/)

I believe this would be among the most egregious mistakes and most dishonorable milestones this country has ever known.  I strongly urge you to use whatever means are at your disposal to prevent this atrocious act from taking place. 

Yours truly,
Joel Johannesen
http://www.ProudToBeCanadian.ca

NOTE:  I did write the Governor-General.  No response.  Of course, she was promoted to G-G from her job at the CBC, and they don’t like me much…

Campaign Life Coalition commissioned possibly the largest poll ever undertaken in Canada on the matter of abortion.  ”…  [O]ne the largest, if not the largest ever, Canadian polls on an abortion related issue. It paid a professional polling company to contact over 150,000 Canadian households and ask their view on the Order of Canada award to Canada’s number one abortionist. It wanted absolute certainty about where Canadians stood on the issue. …”  The plain and simple question they asked is typed below. 

Massive New Poll: 56% of Canadians Oppose Morgentaler Order of Canada

Poll called 157,115 Canadian households, yielding over 13,000 respondents – Results weighted in regional proportions

July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A random telephone poll of Canadian households with 13,324 respondents conducted between July 17-21, 2008 has revealed that 55.8% of Canadians oppose the awarding of the Order of Canada to abortionist Henry Morgentaler.

The national poll commissioned by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and just completed, by KLRVU polling has a 95% confidence level and a margin of error of 1.5%. The data is accurate 19 times out of 20. A breakdown of votes by province is provided.

[...]

The Question: “Do you believe abortionist Henry Morgentaler deserves the Order of Canada Press 1 for Yes Press 2 for No”

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The online petition to have Morgentaler’s Order of Canada award rescinded has reached 11,468 signatures on the English-language version alone. 

• Canadian Petition – English
• Canadian Petition – French
• American and International Petition

Previous blog entry.

Morgentaler category at PTBC (excludes columnists).

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Luckily I’m multilingual and I can speak socialist and buffoon. 

A citizen from the far-left coast, John Fryer, listing his apparently “dual” citizenship on his web page as “Citizenship: Canadian and European”, has taken exception to remarks made by a Conservative MP, Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney.

Speaking for himself and many of his constituents, no doubt, because that’s his job, the MP Lunney said that he hopes Morgentaler lives long enough to see his Order of Canada award revoked.  So do I.  So do millions of sensible people like me who care about life. It’s why we’re called “pro-life”. We love life and think everybody has a right to it.  Including Morgentaler and all the pre-born babies he operated on for “health” reasons. 

Fryer, the self-appointed town crier and know-it-all arbiter of what’s right and wrong, thought Lunney’s remark was, and I quote, “vicious”. 

Yes.  It’s “vicious” in much the same way as, say, allowing the life of a human baby to proceed as normal in the womb without it being interrupted by getting its head crushed and then being sucked out of the womb in an abortion mill, and then being thrown into the garbage.  So it is established that Fryer is a buffoon. 

Fryer apparently called up his ever so un-vicious and moderate allies at the local liberal-left-luvin’ newspaper, the famous Parksville Qualicum Beach News, and voiced his grave concerns about all the “vicious”.  Coinkydink alert:  Fryer is running against Lunney in the next election for the hideous Green Party. 

Dutifully, the paper ran with the big story, declaring—in no uncertain terms—in their headline:  “ MP’s comments ‘vicious’ ”.  Ah.  The science is settled.

…The bottom line, Fryer said, is government should stay out of the process and leave it up to the committee, which includes the chief justice of the supreme court and several heads of Canadian universities, among others.

“A large majority of the independent selection committee felt he deserved the honour,” Fryer said. “The government should stay out of it. It’s none of their business and it’s none of Mr. Lunney’s business.”

Well that’s odd, Mr. Fryer.  Maybe that’s how they do it in your other country of citizenship, “Europe”, but not here.

Those dutifully reported words are from the man who made his mark in life by the dogged promotion of the power—in strength and number—of militant public sector labor unions in Canada.  This is the brain trust that believes the government should get in ALL our business.  And our families.  And our personal lives.  And our culture.  And our education.  And our health care.  And our town festivals and events.  And our television watching.  And radio listening.  And train-taking.  And movies.  And documentaries.  And car insurance.  And car building.  And liquor store running.  And wheat selling.  And trans-fats-eating.  And cheese-making.  And mail delivery.  And smoking.  And thinking.  And child care (and “early learning” —wink!) institution-building, and everything else they can dream up… 

Mr. Fryer, an MP wannabe, thinks he should get into “their business”, but citizen representative Lunney, MP, the people’s representative in government,  shouldn’t.  People must not be allowed a voice in government, and that voice must not interfere in, um, government.  Being liberal is hard. 

OK scratch that bit about Fryer being a buffoon.  He’s a crazy socialist dictator in the making.

Memo to the town Fryer:  MPs represent the people.  Literally, the common folks.  That’s their whole job.  That’s it.  They are our voice in government.  It’s why they call it the House of Commons, you rotund socialist.

  Fryer and his “trust us, we’re from the government” tribe apparently think we in Canada (the archaic monarchy bit aside) are a people of the government; rather than the government being a government of the people, by the people, and for the people (hat tip to America). 

Socialists are like that.  It’s why they try to create a “Canadian Culture” for us.  And why they do things like proclaim what “Canadian Values” are (on their state-owned CBC), and so on, often using their now blatantly obviously political devices (of their own government creation)  like the Order Of Canada division, and its liberal-left government-appointed award selection committee, who make liberal-leftist agenda-driving proclamations like the Morgentaler “Abortion is a Canadian Value which we WILL celebrate!” award on none other than our very own Canada Day. 

Naturally, Fryer apparently thinks all the big decisions should be made by the elites who have been appointed to their positions… by government.  Mostly by liberals and leftists.  Exactly like himself.  Thus we have liberals and leftists on the committee —a list which includes the head liberal agenda-driver at the Order of Canada committee, the Chief Justice of the liberals’ Supreme Court division (who may hear a case some day about abortion), who was appointed to the Supreme Court itself by government; heads of state-owned, state-funded universities;  perpetually state-funded and state-funding-reliant “artists” and ballet dancers;  and of course the award decisions then go through the government-appointed Governor-General of Canada herself, the former state-owned, state-run CBC reporter and Liberal government Paul Martin-appointed Michaëlle Jean. 

We the people are too stupid to make decisions, and certainly shouldn’t question the government decisions.  No, not when his government politburo and their ever so remarkably like-minded appointees on their beloved planning committees can make them for us.

But don’t take my word for it, Mr. Fryer.  Listen to the words of the most powerful person you will ever meet in your entire life:  she’s the Canadian citizen who read the above-noted article and emailed me from Parksville:  Jean, who said: 

What’s vicious is the possibility of still more elitist undemocratic socialists like Fryer getting into office.

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It’s amazing to me how pro-life people are marginalized and castigated and berated, pigeon-holed and shouted-down by pro-abortion liberals as: “extremists”. 

And how things have “progressed”; how the weak-minded have been led by liberals and their media and the clergy in their academia division (the teachers) to subscribe to that spurious bit of social engineering.

To liberals and the left generally, abortion is not “extreme” —it’s a “moderate” and “middle of the road” and “mainstream” activity to them; the blood, the human death, the absolutely horrendous surgical tools —vacuums and skull crushers and forceps and chemicals —and the gruesome medical procedures, and naturally the incalculable mental anguish and pain and foreboding of the would-be mother and father that often results, all notwithstanding. 

That’s how liberals and leftists think.  And this, they call “progressive”. 

I’m not entirely sure that’s sane. 

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More Canadians have returned Order of Abortion Appreciation (the award formerly known as Order of Canada) award. 

See below for information on how to return yours. 

8th Canadian to Return Order of Canada Because of Morgentaler Award

By Tim Waggoner

WINDSOR, ON, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired Police Detective Frank Chauvin has announced his intention to return his Order of Canada decoration.

Chauvin revealed his decision to the Windsor Star on Thursday morning:

“Yes, it’s definitely going. I don’t want to be painted with the same brush as Morgentaler. It’s definitely going back.”

Chauvin is a retired police detective, renown for his dedication to serving the poor in international communities, such as when he founded an orphanage for abandoned girls in Port-au-Prince.

“It’s a bittersweet decision,” said Chauvin. “It was a wonderful thing to have obtained . . . But it’s gotta go.”

Chauvin believes the Order of Canada has been tainted by Morgentaler’s induction into it, and is disheartened that “this is what Canada stands for these days.”

[...]

Chauvin’s name has been added to a growing list of Canadians who have returned Canada’s highest civilian honour because of the award to Henry Morgentaler:

Former Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick Gilbert Finn
Monsignor A.J. Goski
Madonna House foundress Catherine Doherty
Father Lucien Larre
Frank Chauvin
Three anonymous recipients

Important contact information can be found here:

List of Who to Call, E-Mail, Write to Get the Morgentaler Appointment Revoked

Meanwhile, over 10,500 people have now signed the petition to rescind the award to Morgentaler. 

The left keeps “mum”

And 33 MPs, nearly all of them Conservative Party MPs, have voiced their concern or outrage at the Morgentaler award.  No NDP or Bloc socialists have voiced even the slightest concern, and most Liberals, whose party should be considered the party of abortion, keep “mum”, as it were.  All parties are officially in favor of limitless taxpayer abortion for any reason or no reason whatsoever at any time in any pregnancy, including the Conservative Party. 

The following is a list of MPs who are known to have publicly spoken out against the decision to award the Order of Canada to Dr. Henry Morgentaler:

Conservative MP Jason Kenney, Calgary Southeast, Alberta
Conservative MP Andrew Scheer, Regina-Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan
Conservative MP Ken Epp, Sherwood Park, Edmonton
Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge, Winnipeg South, Manitoba
Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan
Liberal MP Dan McTeague, Pickering-Scarborough East, Ontario
Liberal MP Paul Steckle, Huron-Bruce, Ontario
Conservative MP Art Hanger, Calgary Northeast, Alberta
Conservative MP Jeff Watson, Essex, Ontario
Conservative MP Dr. James Lunney, Nanaimo-Alberni, British Columbia
Conservative MP Pierre Lemieux, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Ontario
Conservative MP David Anderson, Cypress Hills – Grasslands, Saskatchewan
Conservative MP Rona Ambrose, Spruce Grove, Edmonton
Conservative MP Norm Doyle, St. John’s East, Newfoundland
Conservative MP, Mike Allen, Tobique-Mactaquac, New Brunswick
Conservative MP Rob Moore, Fundy Royal, New Brunswick
Conservative MP Brad Trost, Saskatoon-Humboldt, Saskatchewan
Conservative MP Bev Shipley, Lambton Kent Middlesex, Ontario
Conservative MP Leon Benoit, Vegreville-Wainwright, Alberta
Conservative MP Gerry Ritz, Battlefords-Lloydminster, Saskatchewan
Conservative MP Colin Carrie, Oshawa, Ontario
Conservative MP Carol Skelton, Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar
Conservative MP Loyola Hearn, St. John’s South-Mount Pearl, New Foundland
Liberal MP Paul Zed, St. John, New Brunswick
Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, Yorkton-Melville, Saskatchewan
Conservative MP Richard Harris, Cariboo – Prince George, British Columbia
Conservative MP Myron Thompson, Wild Rose, Alberta
Conservative MP Dean Allison, Niagara West-Glanbrook, Ontario
Conservative MP Joy Smith, Kildonan – St. Paul, Manitoba
Conservative MP Andrew Scheer, Regina-Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan
Conservative MP Peter MacKay, Central Nova, Nova Scotia
Liberal MP Robert Thibault. West Nova, Nova Scotia
Independent MP Bill Casey, Cumberland Colchester Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia

Abortion is the most disgusting, most egregious thing ever thought of by humans. 

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An excellent column by Montreal Gazette columnist and author Henry Aubin caught my eye this week.  It’s excellent because it helps expose the perfidy involved in the cabal of liberals who secretly arranged a national award for the liberal-left’s abortion hero, Henry Morgentaler, in order to advance their personal, political/social cause. 

I asked for and got his OK to post it here at PTBC.  It’s an excellent read at two minutes. 

In it, he explains that the brilliant Canadian ethicist Margaret Somerville was passed over by what we now know is the politically tainted Order of Canada committee, ostensibly because Miss Somerville was “too controversial”.  Miss Somerville has, you see, argued in favor of traditional marriage and against radical atheism, and so on. 

Last year, as a matter of fact, I posted a column by Margaret Somerville here at PTBC (after personally asking her first, as I always do with all our columns and columnists).  But she was particularly concerned about this web site, which, based on her answer, she’d obviously visited before,  and knew it for what it was: a conservative advocacy site.  She told me that she would prefer not to be referred to as a “guest columnist” (as of course I normally call the non-regular special guest columnists).  This website, she told me, is more political than she was comfortable with in her professional life.  She explained that she has always avoided speaking other than as an independent individual and has never joined any advocacy or political organization or ever signed a petition or group letter. This, she said, let her believe that it gives what she has to say more neutrality than it would otherwise be perceived as having, which is important for the credibility of her opinions. 

So I made a special new category of columns with a special “avatar” icon (that category has now been used a few times), and in her case, made a special preamble to the column advising readers that she is not associated with this web site as a regular columnist but rather she simply allowed her column to be posted here for interest and discussion purposes. 

I tell you all this because it obviously was and continues to be extremely important to Miss Somerville that she remain absolutely as neutral as possible in her professional life.  To not be a “militant”.  To not be too “controversial” in the eyes of her fellow Canadians.  So that we might benefit from an intellectually honest discussion of important issues. 

And yet she was deemed too “controversial” to receive the Order of Canada. Apparently an intellectually honest discussion of the issues is not what the liberal-left wants.  Perhaps they can’t handle it. 

This further proves the scurrilous, secret, liberal-left-led mission to award radical extremist abortionist and abortion mill operator Henry Morgentaler —on Canada Day no less— was a complete political travesty.  It’s perfidy of the highest order.

It’s an absolute Canadian disgrace.

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Attackers of religion display their own fundamentalist zeal

• Henry Aubin’s article here at PTBC:
McGill ethicist refused Order of Canada because she was ‘too controversial’

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Double the expected turnout?  You’d think that would be news.  But it’s not.  CBC Newsworld is all over “road rage” and “how to avoid getting struck by lightning”.  Even though it was well-attended by the media, including the CBC as I pointed out earlier.  Even the folks who organized it predicted only 500 would show up.  Still, the media reports what they want you to know. 

A Thousand Attend Ottawa Rally Demanding Order of Canada to Abortionist be Revoked

“Revoke the Award and Change Advisory Council,” say Protestors

OTTAWA, July 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Revoke the award, absolutely no question – but it is not enough,” said spokesperson Angelina Steenstra. Today, in front of the Governor General’s residence, a thousand people gathered to protest the Order of Canada award to Henry Morgentaler, and the conflictive interest with the revocation process.

Although cloudy, hot and humid, no rain fell on the demonstrators who held signs reading: REVOKE, “We Desire A Better Country” and “Henry Morgentaler made a killing off our generation please don’t honor him”.  Banners read: “Abortion is a crime against humanity.”

The crowd was calm and subdued.  There was a significant media presence as well. …

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I’m going to refer to the “Order of Canada” as the “Order of Abortion Acceptance”, since it was a de facto order on Canada Day that Canadians accept abortion, and that we deem it as yet another one of what the liberals call their (slash) our “Canadian Values”.  (In fact it’s not just about tolerating or accepting their love for abortion, it’s about officially celebrating it as a nation, isn’t it?  So I’m actually being quite restrained.

I didn’t really change anything, of course.  Liberals did.  Much as they did “mom and dad”, “marriage”, and “family”.  And, perhaps, “Canada”.

So all you folks who hold an “Order of Abortion Acceptance”, congrats!  Hope you don’t mind the li’l change!  It’s “progressive”!

UPDATE (Tuesday July 8):

Having slept on it, maybe “Order of Abortion Appreciation” would be better. Because it’s more than mere “acceptance”.  I’m pretty sure it will be shortened to just “Order of Abortion”.

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