News & Analysis

Following the August 28th resignation of Christine Elliott, residents in the provincial riding of Whitby-Oshawa will need to elect a new Member of Provincial Parliament to represent them at Queen’s Park. Elliott decided to quit provincial politics after she failed to win the PC Leadership, the third such attempt by the long-time MPP. The byelection has will be held February 11, 2016.

Update: Not running - James Gault, the only pro-life, pro-family candidate.

The only known pro-life, pro-family candidate who was to run in the by-election, James Gault, was not able to register as a candidate due to paperwork problems with Elections Ontario, and therefore, CLC has no pro-life/pro-family candidate to endorse as of this moment. Mr. Gault is the leader of the New Reform Party of Ontario, which was created from the pro-life Family Coalition Party. He is very strongly opposed to the Liberal government's age-inappropriate, early childhood sex curriculum and he had filled in a perfect CLC election questionnaire. We are sorry to see his candidacy denied. 

PC candidate, Mr. Lorne Coe, did not respond to CLC's questionnaire in spite of numerous requests. There are also photos on the internet of Mr.Coe celebrating with ultra left-wing groups who are totally hostile to social conservative values. Therefore, Coe is presumed to be a social liberal himself and Not Supportable.

NDP candidate is deemed to be pro-abortion, as per official NDP policy, and therefore Not Supportable. As a party, the NDP has been strongly supportive of the child-sexualizing, Wynne/Levin sex curriculum.

Liberal candidate, Elizabeth Roy, has not responded to CLC's election questionnaire. However, given that the graphic, age-inappropriate sex curriculum is Kathleen Wynne's top priority, candidate Roy is unlikely to ever speak or act against her leader's interests, even if she were to have reservations about the sex-ed program. It has been CLC's experience that even the few Liberal MPs who are openly pro-life, have thrown their full support behind Kathleen Wynne's pet project. 

Green Party candidate, Stacey Leadbetter, confirmed receipt of CLC's questionnaire and promised to complete it, but has not yet done so.

Five other candidates, representing smaller or indepentent parties, are also running in the by-election. Below are their names and contact information. We encourage our supporters to contact these candidates to find out where they stand on the issues of pro-life vs. pro-choice, on sex-ed, and on euthanasia:
 

John Turmel - Pauper Party of Ontario - [email protected] - (519) 753-5122

Garry Cuthbert - The Peoples Political Party - [email protected] - (647) 345-7539

Adam McEwan - Ontario Libertarian Party - [email protected] - (416) 283-7589

Douglas Thom - Freedom Party of Ontario - [email protected] - (519) 681-3999

Greg Vezina - None of the Above Party of Ontario - [email protected] - (905) 501-0010

To view our candidate comparison page, complete with ratings and links to each candidate's bio page, please click here.