Ani Ibi:
The Conservatives imho are as crooked and unreliable as the Liberals. The NDP are ten times worse. The Green are OK but they don’t have a pro-life platform. There is the Christian Heritage Party. Usually in our riding we have about 15 different candidates.
Obviously the solution long term is to start a new party. For the time being we need just to keep pro-life in the news and bug the hek out of the existing candidates with email campaigns.
It sounds like you have another problem…the belief that no one in any of your parties is good. This is patently false for all people of all parties everywhere in the world. While good people may be in the minority (and in some parties, good people may be in frighteningly low numbers) they are there.
Canadians I talk to seem to have the same disease many Europeans have. It is a thought process that says “RIGHT WING=BAD.” This kind of thinking hasn’t gotten the Europeans much of anywhere, and it can be argued that it has at least helped with the decline of a Christian political voice in Europe. Frankly, if Canadian (orthodox) Catholics want to help shape public policy, they need to get over this kind of thinking, and they need to do it post-haste.
No political party of any stripe is going to be a perfect one. You are going to have imperfect people running the show until Christ himself returns in glory. You have got to work within the system you have in order to reform it. Basically, these are your options:
Vote Liberal: A vote for pro-death, anti-family, anti-Catholic forces for the most part.
Vote NDP: Essentially, a vote for people who think Karl Marx was too right-wing. Our new Holy Father has listed these sorts as some of the biggest enemies of the Church today.
If you live in Quebec, you can always vote BQ/PQ: This is a party that doesn’t really take a difinitive stand on the issues that really matter to us…but they do have* many* pro-aborts running for them, and that is a sign of where they would take a Republique du Quebec. There would be no return to the days of Duplessis when the Church had real social clout.
Or you can vote Conservative: Here is a party that not only wants pro-life/pro-family votes, but openly says that such people are welcome to join, stand for seats in Parliament, even help make decisions and build the Party. Are they doing everything we’d like to see? Of course not. I am a Republican here in the States, and the GOP is the closest thing we have here to your Conservative Party. There are many things that the GOP has done that I am not happy about or pleased with, but they’ve also done A LOT of good things, too. Things that would never have happened if their opposition had been allowed to return to power.
My guess is that the Conservatives will be much the same: They’ll do a good many things that will tick you off, but some pro-family/pro-life things will begin to happen for Canada that might otherwise not happen if the Tories are not given the chance to govern.
I have encountered a tremendous lethargy up here.