The John-Henry Westen Show - August 04, 2021


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Rod Taylor, the leader of the Christian Heritage Party, joins us to talk about the Canadian political system and its differences from the United States. He also talks about abortion, abortion rights, and the pro-life movement in Canada.

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00:00:00.740 Are you confused about the Canadian political system?
00:00:04.160 I know it might seem a little crazy.
00:00:06.240 We don't vote for our Prime Minister directly at all.
00:00:10.020 We've got someone who is going to help explain all of that.
00:00:13.500 He's actually the head of one of the parties in Canada,
00:00:17.000 probably one that you've not heard of.
00:00:19.140 Yes, there are more than just the Conservative and Liberal parties in Canada.
00:00:22.880 And you're going to learn all about that system
00:00:25.000 and about the Christian Heritage Party from its leader, Rod Taylor.
00:00:29.080 Stay tuned.
00:00:30.000 Thank you, Rod.
00:01:00.000 Thank you for being with us.
00:01:01.500 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:01:04.320 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
00:01:09.440 Amen.
00:01:09.680 So, Rod, thank you for joining us.
00:01:13.160 You have been in politics for a long time now.
00:01:17.880 And as a Canadian politician, especially a party leader,
00:01:21.320 you're able to tell us about the Canadian political system a little bit.
00:01:25.500 I think a lot of people wonder about it now that our American friends to the south are looking to Canada
00:01:31.280 because they see these insane lockdowns and encroaching communism.
00:01:36.100 They're feeling the effects of that themselves.
00:01:39.500 Tell us a little bit, if you will, about how the Canadian political system runs,
00:01:44.440 how it differs from the United States.
00:01:47.740 Okay.
00:01:48.300 Well, the Canadian political system, well, we have a constitutional monarchy.
00:01:53.140 We have a representative parliament.
00:01:58.000 Some would call it a parliamentary democracy.
00:02:00.060 But we have a House of Commons, and the upper house is the Senate.
00:02:06.540 And the House of Commons, we have 338 members of parliament representing,
00:02:13.480 you can see on the map behind me, this is all divided.
00:02:16.460 You can't see all the dividing lines.
00:02:18.440 But 338 districts in Canada, electoral districts, which each are represented by one MP.
00:02:25.400 And, John Henry, I don't know if you have thought about this,
00:02:28.480 but the average population of each district in Canada is about 100,000.
00:02:34.420 It's the same number of babies as are killed in Canada every year.
00:02:38.120 And so, you know, I think of it in terms of every member of parliament has the opportunity to represent
00:02:44.600 if he or she will fight for pro-life cause to represent not only the 100,000 citizens of his or her district,
00:02:52.620 but also the 100,000 pre-born who need a voice in parliament.
00:02:58.760 So when we have an election, and our elections are not consistently every four years as they are in the United States,
00:03:06.260 we are halfways expecting an election this summer or fall.
00:03:10.920 And that's only two years since our last federal general election.
00:03:14.620 And it's somewhat at the whim of the prime minister.
00:03:18.280 But when an election is called, citizens get to vote for the member of their district,
00:03:26.040 the member who will represent them in the House of Commons.
00:03:28.980 They do not get to vote for the prime minister.
00:03:32.180 They do not get to vote for their senators.
00:03:34.800 They only get to vote for the individual who will represent them in their district.
00:03:41.000 And by the way, yeah, we do have the conservatives, the liberals, the NDP, the Green Party,
00:03:47.460 the Bloc Québécois in Quebec.
00:03:50.280 But there are actually about 20 federal parties registered at this time.
00:03:55.740 I don't know if it's exactly 20 above or below.
00:03:58.580 That number goes up and down.
00:04:00.360 Some parties get registered, and then they maybe run in one election and fall away or whatever.
00:04:07.060 New ones come on the scene.
00:04:08.620 But unfortunately, most of the smaller parties' voices are never really heard in the House of Commons.
00:04:16.320 There's right now the conservatives, the liberals, the Bloc, the NDP, and the Greens are there.
00:04:22.600 And those are the ones you hear from.
00:04:24.780 And quite often it is the loudest voices, the prime minister being – okay, I should go back up for a second.
00:04:32.880 How the prime minister becomes the prime minister is because he or she is the leader of the party that gets the most votes in the federal election.
00:04:45.360 So they might not even have a majority.
00:04:47.400 In fact, currently our liberal prime minister, Justin Trudeau, does not have a majority in the House of Commons.
00:04:54.000 He has less than 50 percent of the seats represented there, but he has been able to govern and I think govern very badly with the support of a couple of the smaller parties,
00:05:07.640 the NDP, the Greens and the Bloc, who basically share his left-wing so-called progressive values, including the killing of the pre-born, the killing of the elderly through euthanasia,
00:05:20.380 you know, gender confusion being imposed on the masses in Canada, and excessive government spending.
00:05:29.580 So there we have a liberal – I would call it a coalition because – so what happens, there's a couple of ways that an election can be called.
00:05:40.180 One is a vote of non-confidence.
00:05:42.580 So if this – especially in a minority government, the liberals have less than 50 percent of the seats, and usually they all vote for what their leader wants.
00:05:52.300 When they present a budget, which they haven't been very good at doing, but when they present a budget,
00:05:58.260 if over 50 percent of the members of parliament would vote against the budget, that would be considered a vote of non-confidence,
00:06:05.800 and the government would fall, prompting an election.
00:06:10.380 The other way that the prime minister, if he or she wants to call an election, can go to the governor general,
00:06:18.080 who is the representative of the Queen of England, and also the queen, of course, is still our monarch in Canada,
00:06:27.680 and her representative, the governor general, needs to dissolve parliament, and then the election is called.
00:06:35.740 We call it dropping the writ, and we're scrambling, we and our party, the Christian Heritage Party,
00:06:42.800 and all the other parties are scrambling right now to get ready for an election that could start any time in August, September, October, November,
00:06:50.480 or even next year, or it could be put off for another two years.
00:06:53.900 So that's a little bit about how the Canadian system operates and sometimes how it doesn't operate.
00:06:59.860 Yeah, so absolutely crazy. There's a number of neat distinctives, I guess you could say.
00:07:05.240 One, you mentioned that the Senate is not elected at all.
00:07:10.280 The Senate is appointed by the prime minister.
00:07:13.560 You mentioned that the parties don't, you know, people don't vote for the prime minister at all.
00:07:19.600 They vote for their local member of parliament in their own riding or district, as you said.
00:07:24.800 And then the party that they represent the most of is the one who is the prime minister.
00:07:32.480 And then you mentioned about the minor parties and so on.
00:07:35.160 It's an interesting system. It's, of course, the British system as well.
00:07:40.200 One of the things, I guess, to note is that the monarch or queen or queen's representative here in the governor general,
00:07:48.140 the actual power they have is not so much real as figurative.
00:07:52.680 The prime minister really dictates what they're supposed to do.
00:07:56.520 So that's still, it's more like a figurehead, wouldn't you say, than actual running power.
00:08:02.640 That's correct. Now, I don't know if it has to be that way, but that is certainly the way it has been for a long time.
00:08:09.900 I often have wished that the queen would exert her authority when some of these terrible bills have been passed,
00:08:18.340 you know, the euthanasia bills and some of those things, even some of the budgets.
00:08:24.300 I often have wished that the queen would step in and say, no, no, that's no good.
00:08:28.700 But that hasn't happened for an awful long time.
00:08:32.080 So the governor general basically does really almost the will of the prime minister and is appointed with the approval of the prime minister.
00:08:42.640 So the, and the Senate, as you mentioned, they are selected by the prime minister.
00:08:47.060 So when the seat becomes vacant, then the prime minister puts one forward.
00:08:52.180 There has been a move over the years to have the Senate elected because they have so many seats represented in each province.
00:08:59.280 I believe it's a hundred altogether. I'm not sure if it's right around a hundred anyway, senators.
00:09:06.500 And depending on the population of the province and provinces and various agreements that have made, been made in the past, each province has so many senators.
00:09:17.160 Alberta has done this a couple of times and is about to do it again to hold a, an election for their senator.
00:09:25.120 There, there is no guarantee that the prime minister would appoint based on that.
00:09:30.080 But Alberta says, yeah, it's time that we start electing our senators.
00:09:36.500 So just like in the States, legislation can originate in either the house of commons or the Senate.
00:09:42.620 And it has to go back and forth, be approved by both houses and finally get the governor general's endorsement as well before it becomes law in Canada.
00:09:52.640 Right.
00:09:52.760 Now, most of the time, I think that we've seen the Senate do some rubber stamping, although interestingly, very recently, with regard to two very scary bills, one on massive control of the Internet information the government was putting forward.
00:10:10.400 Basically, it sounded like to clamp down on what they would consider right wing media and so on.
00:10:15.620 But also with regard to freedom on the pro-family side of things, it was very, very scary.
00:10:23.900 And yet the Senate didn't actually pass the legislation, which was very surprising.
00:10:29.460 Yeah.
00:10:29.660 So this is very interesting.
00:10:30.880 Those bills, Bill C-6, which is the conversion therapy ban bill, which has been pushed heavily, which would interfere with a parent's right even to counsel their own children regarding their gender confusion or gender questions.
00:10:45.740 And face jail time, by the way, if they didn't go along with it.
00:10:50.220 Anyway, just to show you how extreme this all is.
00:10:52.360 Yeah, with a pastor's right to counsel one of his or her parishioners in regards to, you know, people who have maybe transitioned or gone down the road of what we would consider gender confusion.
00:11:07.180 And they maybe want to find their way back to being comfortable in their own skin.
00:11:12.460 And if a pastor counsels them in that direction, could be guilty under this.
00:11:19.700 Anyway, this bill has not become law.
00:11:21.780 It is stuck in the Senate.
00:11:23.420 The Senate has risen for the summer.
00:11:25.700 In other words, they're not sitting to discuss legislation.
00:11:28.860 And the interesting thing is the prime minister desperately wanted that particular bill and C-10.
00:11:33.820 I'll mention that in a minute.
00:11:35.060 He wanted them to pass before an election.
00:11:39.080 He wanted them to become law.
00:11:40.960 But the Senate has risen.
00:11:43.620 And we don't know the timing and all the reasons for the timing of the election.
00:11:47.440 But we think that the prime minister wants to get a vote in quickly this year to try to win a majority and maintain his status as prime minister for the next four years.
00:11:58.540 And we think next year he may realize that by the time he has to cut off some of these COVID payments to Canadians and maybe raise taxes, he's not going to be as popular as he seems to be today among many.
00:12:11.340 The other bill, as you mentioned, C-10, was an Internet communications control bill.
00:12:19.280 They they've advertised it as to promote Canadian content, but it actually would do would limit the ability of people with conservative social views to voice those concerns on the Internet.
00:12:34.600 And, you know, John Henry, when it starts to get where the government is controlling what you can say, how you can express your opinions, whether it's through the Internet, the written media or in person, it's very scary time for for democracy.
00:12:52.040 Definitely so. In fact, one of the other interesting and I think it's pretty novel changes to Canadian politics has been this this whole notion of the approval, so-called, of the candidates for particular parties.
00:13:07.660 So there is no freedom like, oh, you think, oh, I'm just going to run for this party.
00:13:11.360 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:13:12.600 In fact, people can be parachuted into your own riding to run for that particular party in your riding.
00:13:18.600 Can you explain that to us?
00:13:19.440 Yes. Well, they call it party discipline.
00:13:24.220 And of course, you know, discipline can be a good thing if it's used for a good purpose.
00:13:29.260 But the we recognize I think most Canadians recognize and those south of the border who may follow our politics a little bit that the liberals, the NDP, the Greens and the bloc are all heavily leaning in the socialist direction, the pro abortion, pro euthanasia direction.
00:13:48.080 Heavy spending, heavy spending and so on.
00:13:50.640 The Conservative Party historically has been seen as conservative, as holding the line on spending, as retaining respect for the sanctity of life and respect for traditional marriage.
00:14:02.760 But in recent years, of course, that's gone downhill.
00:14:06.240 There's been a move within the party, unfortunately.
00:14:11.300 We call them red Tories.
00:14:12.780 But those who claim the name of conservative, I think in the States they call them RINOs, a Republican in name only.
00:14:20.160 But in Canada, it's been a real factor.
00:14:23.680 So within the party, there's the leader of the party who, if they win a majority, becomes the prime minister.
00:14:29.620 But otherwise, it's still the leader of the party.
00:14:32.300 They have party whips.
00:14:34.700 And when something comes for a vote, it's not like every member of parliament can just vote according to their convictions.
00:14:44.540 I mean, they can and they should, but if they do and they vote contrary to the wishes of their leader and the controlling core of the party, they may face discipline, including, up to and including, I mean, they can be kicked out of the party, as Derek Sloan recently was kicked out of the Conservative Party.
00:15:04.580 Or the leader of the party might say, well, in the next election, unless you change, I'm not going to sign your papers.
00:15:12.760 In other words, you won't be able to run as a conservative or maybe as a liberal if you don't toe the party line.
00:15:21.060 And tragically, you know, it's a form of cowardice, but there have been good people who have given up their convictions or abandoned their convictions simply because they want to get reelected again.
00:15:36.160 And in some ridings in Canada, they're heavily conservative ridings.
00:15:40.820 If you don't run for the Conservative Party, you don't have a big chance of getting elected.
00:15:44.240 And same liberal ridings tending to be in the big cities and so on.
00:15:49.480 Same pattern as in the states with, you know, social conservatives in the states running for the Republicans.
00:15:56.580 But anyway, unfortunately, party discipline has pressured a lot of MPs not to fulfill either the wishes of their constituents or their own internal convictions.
00:16:11.460 And that's tragic.
00:16:12.400 We need people in Parliament who will stand up for life, family and freedom.
00:16:17.800 And we do thank and appreciate those members of Parliament who are doing that in spite of their party's slide to the left.
00:16:25.880 I think, particularly Kathy Wagenthal from Saskatchewan, she's a Conservative member.
00:16:31.720 She introduced a backbench bill, C-233, which was a bill to ban sex-selective abortion, to keep pre-born girls from being killed just because they're girls.
00:16:43.800 And, you know, she's a tremendous warrior for the pre-born.
00:16:49.540 But her party leader and a number of her party members did not support it.
00:16:55.220 And, of course, the left-wing ruling party did not support it either.
00:17:00.100 So it did not pass.
00:17:02.020 Yeah.
00:17:02.140 So this brings us to where Canada is vis-a-vis the United States.
00:17:08.380 The reason why this is so strange over here is because we, in some respects, don't have any Conservative Party at all.
00:17:18.440 It calls itself the Progressive Conservative Party.
00:17:23.480 And there is some history back there with the reform and we can go into that in a little bit.
00:17:27.560 But for all intents and purposes, right now, our leader in the Conservative Party, Aaron O'Toole, is a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage with total intolerance for any other view.
00:17:42.240 And so this makes for a totally bizarre situation.
00:17:46.500 So you have the so-called left, which is all leftist, communist.
00:17:50.400 I don't even think they can be called socialists anymore.
00:17:52.820 They seem totally communist.
00:17:54.840 And then Aaron O'Toole, who, in U.S. politics, would be regarded as a total liberal.
00:18:03.500 No one could envision him as a Conservative of any straight.
00:18:07.820 Even the rhinos would probably say, oh, come on, you're too far for the left, even for us.
00:18:13.500 But nonetheless, that's where it is.
00:18:14.900 I think he's left of Joe Biden, perhaps.
00:18:17.340 I don't even know.
00:18:18.420 It's so bizarre to see.
00:18:20.240 So this is where the Christian Heritage Party comes in.
00:18:23.440 And perhaps some other parties that might come up and voice their pro-life, pro-family beliefs.
00:18:28.660 But, you know, you're in some ways like a voice crying in the wilderness because you've been there.
00:18:34.860 How many years old is the Christian Heritage Party now?
00:18:37.680 About 35 years.
00:18:40.160 Right.
00:18:40.360 It was registered in 1986.
00:18:43.560 The founding convention was 1987.
00:18:45.840 And the first election where candidates ran was 1988.
00:18:49.880 Right.
00:18:50.100 And in terms of your policies, they are pro-life, pro-family, and strongly so.
00:18:57.500 And obviously pro-God, your Christian Heritage Party, which is also beautiful.
00:19:01.140 But let me talk for a minute about where you are with the whole COVID nonsense, because that has been pushed down Canadians' throat, right, left, center, lockdowns.
00:19:13.060 Anything and everything we can do to get the jab.
00:19:16.600 The COVID passports are coming.
00:19:18.160 Trudeau can't wait to get in front of a camera to say how wonderful the vaccines are and how everybody's going to have to take them.
00:19:25.060 So, where is the Christian Heritage Party on this issue?
00:19:30.980 Well, of course, we haven't had a convention since the COVID scare began.
00:19:36.580 But as a leader and with our core, our national board and so on, and leaders of provinces, we have moved, and I think in recent months, moved rapidly away from following the narrative that's being put forward, both by the federal government and provincial governments.
00:20:00.520 For those in the United States, provincial government would be similar to one of the state governments.
00:20:07.440 But the lockdowns have been almost uniform across the country.
00:20:12.160 There have been different elements of it.
00:20:14.080 But we've had pastors arrested for holding church services.
00:20:18.720 We've had pastors and churches being given fines, I mean, ranging up to a million dollars.
00:20:24.740 Businesses shut down, and all based on the idea that people being close to each other, healthy people being close to each other, is somehow going to spread COVID.
00:20:37.660 And this narrative, as you know, has gone around the world.
00:20:40.840 It's not simply a Canadian phenomenon.
00:20:42.700 I think when COVID came on the scene, I actually was in Washington, D.C. for the CPAC conference back in the good old days when they had a different president.
00:20:55.180 But, you know, everyone was kind of aware that COVID was a thing, that it had something to do with Wuhan.
00:21:03.200 And, you know, I think we were all willing to, you know, take steps to prevent its spread.
00:21:10.940 But as time went on, we began to see that the steps being taken by the provinces and by the federal government didn't make sense.
00:21:21.600 I mean, the mask mandates don't make sense.
00:21:24.500 In British Columbia, for the first year of, you know, since COVID came on the scene, not one person under the age of 30 died in British Columbia.
00:21:35.320 The average age, I think, was 86 at that time, dying from COVID, so-called from COVID.
00:21:40.940 We know that those numbers are vastly inaccurate anyway, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they actually died of COVID, not of a motorcycle accident or whatever, as some of the statistics are that far off.
00:21:55.720 But, you know, to have children in British Columbia schools getting the jab now, which most people say should not even be called a vaccine.
00:22:07.320 It's an experimental biologic product.
00:22:10.200 It's a lot of people, there's a lot of negative or adverse reactions to it.
00:22:14.320 And for children, there's no need for it.
00:22:18.680 And in the meantime, there are other alternative medical approaches that the government has not only ignored, but made very difficult for physicians to use.
00:22:31.360 Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, all those things to strengthen the immune system.
00:22:38.100 And if someone were to get COVID, you know, handle it anyway, we know that the statistics are that over 99% of the people coming down with COVID survive.
00:22:49.580 And, you know, especially in the younger ages, we didn't do a very good job of protecting our seniors in the nursing homes.
00:22:57.420 But, you know, we're making kids wear masks while they're gathered.
00:23:01.600 It's ludicrous what's been done.
00:23:03.860 And the damage to the economy, some people say, well, that's just money.
00:23:09.700 Well, it's not just money.
00:23:10.920 It's people's livelihoods, something like 200,000, I forget the number of small businesses that have been closed.
00:23:19.520 They won't come back.
00:23:20.460 You know, people that have worked hard to build up a business all their lives.
00:23:23.740 Suicides are up as a result.
00:23:25.980 Drug use and drug overdoses are up.
00:23:29.880 And the economy is in a shambles.
00:23:31.840 We're over a trillion dollars in debt.
00:23:33.300 Now, of course, if those in the United States say, oh, I wish we were only a trillion dollars in debt.
00:23:37.980 But that's a lot of money.
00:23:40.300 Especially when your population is one-tenth the size.
00:23:43.640 So, you know, we're only at 38 million.
00:23:46.920 Last time I checked, we were spending about $56 million a day on interest on the national debt.
00:23:53.140 That's just going up.
00:23:54.400 And with inflation and interest rates rising, who knows where that's going to end.
00:23:59.320 And it's all part of this great reset.
00:24:02.700 You know, obviously, we don't have time to go into a lot of those details.
00:24:06.260 But we are concerned.
00:24:07.380 We in the Christian Heritage Party are concerned that the government of Canada is using this so-called crisis.
00:24:14.580 I mean, it is a crisis now because the government has made it one.
00:24:19.260 Rather than just handling the health issues as they could have been handled, now the country is in trouble.
00:24:28.840 And I think some people think that the government is trying to see how far can we actually go.
00:24:35.000 If we use health as a flag, you know, how far will the people go in allowing us to, you know, take on dictatorial powers?
00:24:44.520 It looks like people will go pretty far.
00:24:46.480 People, Canadians, you know, are people that use it are easy to get along with.
00:24:51.980 You hear us saying, I'm sorry a lot, you know, and we don't want to be a trouble to anybody.
00:24:57.880 But there's a real danger that we descend into the kind of tyranny that could end up like Nazi Germany. 0.67
00:25:05.580 And I think, you know, I'm afraid many people don't realize that yet.
00:25:09.940 And it's because they care about their neighbors.
00:25:12.520 Oh, yes, I'm willing to make these sacrifices for the good of my community, for the good of my neighbor.
00:25:17.680 And they don't realize they're being led down a garden path that could end up in a very bleak situation.
00:25:24.360 Absolutely.
00:25:26.120 A couple of thoughts there.
00:25:27.440 One, I mean, your allusion to Nazi Germany, people might be taken aback at that.
00:25:32.920 I don't think so.
00:25:33.900 Because, you know, we're already creating a second class citizenry.
00:25:38.300 We are already dictating that I think it's as of the 9th of August, we're going to have two tiers.
00:25:44.500 Basically, if you're vaccinated, you can come into the country.
00:25:47.040 You don't need to do anything.
00:25:48.120 Everything's fine for you.
00:25:49.180 If you're not, well, then tough luck for you.
00:25:51.800 You've got a 14 day quarantine.
00:25:53.320 You know, there's no way you have to be tested for COVID.
00:25:56.760 I don't know how many times during that time.
00:25:59.100 And we're going to call you every five minutes at home.
00:26:01.160 A friend of mine was called, I think he said 16 times in one day.
00:26:05.680 This is total insanity.
00:26:07.300 So we're creating a second class citizenry.
00:26:11.880 I think already in Quebec and maybe it's Saskatchewan, two provinces where they're already talking about, for all non-essential services, if you're not vaccinated, you're going to not be able to enjoy those non-essential services.
00:26:23.680 So, yeah, we're getting to that Nazi style in Canada, which was always, you know, the land of our birth and a great free land. 0.74
00:26:35.480 Rod Taylor, head of the Christian Heritage Party, what is your, what do you see for the future of Canada and what hope do you think there is for Canada in terms of the future?
00:26:45.000 What do we need to do to get to a place of hope?
00:26:47.000 Well, in a general sense, we need to get back to God.
00:26:52.900 We need to get back to the basics of human dignity, respect for life, respect for freedom.
00:26:59.680 Our campaign slogan is life, family and freedom.
00:27:04.220 And just a little history of the party back in 86, when it was registered, there were some Catholics and Protestants that came together in a little town of Surrey, BC, near Vancouver.
00:27:17.000 And they had been working within the bigger parties, even already way back then, and trying to elect pro-life MPs.
00:27:25.060 And they found that once they got them elected, that the party whips and party discipline and the temptations of office and whatever career political movements, kind of that they didn't always get the results they were hoping for.
00:27:40.880 They were hoping to have some honest, courageous, decent people standing up for the pre-born and for marriage. 0.76
00:27:47.400 It didn't always work out that way.
00:27:48.900 So they said, we need a party that is based on Christian principles.
00:27:52.720 Some people say that Christian heritage should have had a hyphen between it because we focus a lot on the heritage.
00:27:59.440 And the preamble to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that's part of our Constitution, says Canada is founded on principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
00:28:14.280 Now, that's in the preamble, and some judges and courts have dismissed that as not really a part of so-called Constitution.
00:28:21.780 But we think it's a wonderful foundational principle, and our parliament buildings, our government buildings in Ottawa have 25 scripture verses engraved on them.
00:28:35.380 And one of them says, he shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river and to the ends of the earth.
00:28:41.860 And the thing is, the founders of this country recognize that every blessing that we have comes from Almighty God.
00:28:50.040 They recognize that we human beings are made in his image, that we have a responsibility not only to each other, but to him and to his principles, and that the prosperity of a nation, the freedom of a nation depends on our willingness to submit our will to his will.
00:29:11.800 You know, Canada is a great nation, has been shown itself around the world for many years.
00:29:17.540 Two world wars, two world wars, we have been there protecting freedom of other people, and now we're losing our own freedom.
00:29:25.360 So we're really concerned about that.
00:29:27.600 But our purpose, we see ourselves sometimes as the conscience of the political elite in this country.
00:29:36.720 We stand for election, and we run hard to be elected.
00:29:42.860 But even if and when we come to the end on voting day, if we don't get sent to parliament, we still think our duty is to speak truth to the public.
00:29:55.480 And so it's a bit of a prophetic voice, maybe a watchman on the wall, we blow the trumpet, you know, and warn of what's coming.
00:30:05.300 But we do see hope, I know, John Henry, the LifeSite News, Campaign Life Coalition, Interim, are forces for good, along with a number of other pro-life organizations in the country.
00:30:19.340 And you folks have done a tremendous job of working with young people, and that's where I do see hope for this nation.
00:30:28.360 There is a growing understanding among young people of Canada about the fact of pre-born human life, that it's not just a blob of tissue, the lies that these generations have been told in the public system.
00:30:43.380 And so I am encouraged by that, and I'm encouraged by your faithfulness and that of, you know, Jim Hughes, Jeff Gunnarsson, and others who have worked so hard, Paul Toons, you know, to bring this message to the people of Canada.
00:30:59.520 We have a responsibility to keep speaking the truth, even when it is not necessarily popular and not necessarily echoed in the mainstream media.
00:31:08.940 But if we fail to speak the truth, then we bear responsibility for, you know, the society not knowing what's happening to us.
00:31:18.120 We blow the trumpet, and if they respond, praise the Lord, that's the best possible outcome.
00:31:24.900 If the public fails to respond, either at the polls or in other ways, laws that are being passed and so on, well, at least we've done our job and we can, you know, be content.
00:31:38.640 Our conscience will rest easy if we've done everything we can do to restore a sense of truth and dignity to Canadian culture.
00:31:48.320 Amen.
00:31:49.040 Amen.
00:31:49.640 Rod Taylor, thank you for being with us in this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
00:31:52.880 So go check out Christian Heritage Party, chp.ca, and good Canadians will have some place to park their vote come this next election, whenever it may be.
00:32:05.740 God bless you, and God bless you all.
00:32:09.340 We'll see you next time.
00:32:10.400 Thanks very much, John.
00:32:13.940 Hi, this is John Henry Weston, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of LifeSite News.
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