The issues addressed in the Campaign Life Coalition Questionnaire, as crucial as they are, are often not understood by candidates.

The process of obtaining answers to the questions therefore serves the dual purpose of finding out where each candidate stands on the particular issues (the most immediate purpose) and secondly, to encourage candidates to increase their knowledge and develop an informed position on the issues.

To see all the questions and explanations on one page click here.

For explanation of just any question click on the number below.

The Questions:

1. Do you believe life begins at conception (fertilization)?

2. If elected, will you support measures to introduce and pass a law to protect every unborn child from the time of conception (fertilization) onward?

3. Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion?

4. If elected, will you support legislative or regulatory measures that would prohibit the
dispensing of abortion-inducing pharmaceuticals?

5. If elected, will you support legislative or regulatory measures to prohibit experimentation upon human embryos, at every stage of development?

6. If elected, will you oppose any legislative or regulatory measures designed to permit the deliberate killing (euthanasia) of a human being regardless of age, state of health or “anticipated quality of life” or designed to permit “doctor-assisted suicide”?

7. If elected, will you support legislative or regulatory measures to explicitly exclude abortion as an insured health service under the Canada Health Act?

8. If elected, will you vote for measures that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others?

9. Do you consider yourself ____ “pro-life” or ____ “pro-choice”?