Updated March 28, 2017:  The Conservative Party of Canada is allowing citizens and permanent residents aged 14 years and older to register online as voting members for the purpose of the Leadership contest, until 11:59 pm tonight, Tuesday March 28. 

You can sign up online through the membership page of either of CLC's endorsed candidates, below:

Brad Trost sign-up:         https://donate.conservative.ca/Membership-BradTrost

Pierre Lemieux sign-up:  https://donate.conservative.ca/Membership-PierreLemieux

The deadline for paper memberships to be delivered to the Party headquarters was 5pm EST on Tuesday March 28th. That deadline has now passed. Only online sign ups are now permitted.

Campaign Life Coalition has endorsed MP Brad Trost and former MP Pierrre Lemieux for the Leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC).  We ask supporters who are registered CPC members to mark only Trost and Lemieux as the #1 and #2 options on the ranked ballot, or vice-versa depending on your preference, when the voting takes place on May 27, or earlier via mail-in ballot.  

Furthermore, we urgently request that every social conservative in Canada please join the CPC by tonight's deadline, to become voting members so that they are eligible to vote for Lemieux & Trost as #1 and/or #2.  

Seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to install... a pro-life Prime Minister

Whoever wins the Conservative Leadership is very likely to become Canada's next Prime Minister.  That's why we cannot understate the importance of this leadership vote. It's historic and potentially, game-changing.  Seize it to fundamentally transform our nation.

Trost and Lemieux have perfect voting records during their careers as Members of Parliament.  More importantly however, they've proven that their convictions run deeper than merely raising their hand during a vote in the House of Commons. Throughout their parliamentary careers, going back at least a decade, they have both been outspoken and manifested their pro-life convictions with action.

They've attended and spoken at the March for Life. In this current leadership race, they've campaigned boldly - and at every turn - on issues of sanctity of life and family values. By their eloquence and consistency on the campaign trail, they have dramatically raised the profile and credibility of the social conservative base of the Party, and of social conservative issues themselves.

Due to their campaigns, other more socially liberal candidates are even shifting more to the right on our issues, such as front runner Maxime Bernier.  (Note: we are not endorsing Bernier). Virtually all the leadership candidates, including the pro-abortion ones, are now taking social conservative voters seriously, and making friendly noises towards them. That is all thanks to Trost and Lemieux's strong campaigns. 

Believe us when we tell you that Trost and Lemieux are the real thing. They deserve your vote.  To view socially conservative policy highlights from their campaign platforms, download this flyer created by Campaign Life Coalition. Feel free to share it with your friends and members from your place of worship.

The next Leader of the Conservative Party is likely to become Prime Minister. Hence, social conservatives should look at this contest for what it is: putting in place the mechanism to one day elect the first pro-life/pro-family Prime Minister in generations.

That is a very real possibility considering that at least 40% of the CPC's base consists of social conservatives. Campaign Life Coalition alone is on track to recruit 10,000 memberships in support of Trost or Lemieux, which is more memberships sold than most of the candidates.  If Trost or Lemieux get the highest number of votes from registered Party members, they’ll win. The formula is that simple, and an organized pro-life movement has the numbers to make it a reality. We have a real path to victory.

What about Andrew Scheer?

CLC was looking forward to also endorsing MP Andrew Scheer who has a perfect voting record in the House of Commons. We give him full credit for his perfect voting record.

However, he has made some very disappointing remarks to journalists after announcing his official leadership candidacy. He essentially told the media that he is personally pro-life, but would never "re-open the abortion debate". From CLC's perspective, this is a pro-abortion stance which suggests to society that the unjust killing of 100,000 preborn children every year in Canada, should be of no concern to our elected lawmakers. It sends the message that these vulnerable human beings do not deserve the protection of the law. Of course, that is a dangerous and unjust message because preborn children are owed legal protection by virtue of their being members of the human family. To be clear, we are not asserting that Andrew is personally pro-abortion, but rather, that a pledge to never re-open the abortion debate is a pro-abortion stance.

He made some other assertions which were also problematic, including a comment during a television interview which could have been interpreted by the audience to mean that Scheer believes there is a constitutional basis to abortion. There is not, of course, and no pro-lifer should every speak in a way which can leave the false impression that there exists such a thing as a constitutional "right" to kill babies in-utero. Scheer also spoke in favour of an anti-traditional marriage resolution at last year's policy convention in Vancouver, which you can read more about at the CLC rating profile here.  

All this taken into consideration, Campaign Life Coalition believes that only Lemieux and Trost have earned the #1 and #2 two positions on the ranked ballot.