I still have a hard time stomaching the results of the last federal election – that Liberal victory was brutal as far as the pro-life movement is concerned.

Carney’s Liberals - the party of death – now have anywhere between two to four years to pulverize what little remains of Canada’s moral fabric.

Just as disappointing was that throughout the election campaign, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre presented himself as a proud supporter of abortion and homosexuality.

It was a dual tragedy to behold.

However, in the medium to long-term, and perhaps even by the next federal election, there is a way to turn things around politically, by putting moral values back on the table. Of course, the strategy I’m about to offer must be backed by prayer or else it won’t be fruitful -- that’s a given.

The strategy involves ordinary pro-lifers rolling up their sleeves and seizing certain upcoming opportunities to change the culture, starting with improving the moral-political climate inside certain parties and by amplifying the voices of other smaller parties that are already strongly pro-life and pro-family.

Conservative Policy Convention + Strengthening the smaller parties

Opportunity #1: Make the CPC more pro-life at Convention

If you tend to support the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), we’d like you to know that its biennial National Policy Convention will be held in the first quarter of 2026, and it’s rumoured to take place either in Calgary or Toronto. Final details have yet to be announced by the CPC but will soon be made known.

This is a golden opportunity that social conservatives must grab with both hands! Delegates at the convention will be able to vote on and pass policy resolutions from the convention floor, thus making them official Conservative Party policy!

Our movement has seen remarkable successes through this process.

For example, in 2016, the CPC adopted as official policy, a ban on sex-selective abortions, which is still the official party position today. In 2023, delegates passed a policy resolution to support legislation to ban puberty blockers and sex-change surgeries for minors.

Above: Conservative party delegates voting at the 2023 National Convention in Quebec City.

And we have ambitious goals of working with socially-conservative, grassroots CPC members to make the Conservative Party more pro-life and pro-family at its 2026 convention. In turn this will put pressure on the party leader, his team, and caucus, to offer socially conservative policies in the next election platform.

Social conservatives passed a policy which Poilievre later campaigned on

In fact, we saw a tiny hint of that strategy working during the recent 2025 election. Let me explain... At the CPC’s 2023 Policy Convention, delegates overwhelmingly passed a policy to ban biological males from female sports and intimate spaces, like women’s prisons. It received 87% YES votes by delegates.

Well, wouldn’t you know it... towards the end of the recent federal election campaign, Poilievre quietly slipped a promise into the party platform which pledged to ban biological males from women’s prisons.

Unfortunately, the CPC Leader never spoke about it on the stump, therefore, very few Canadians knew, and the party got little benefit from it. Nonetheless, that first step was taken, and I believe that, in part at least, it was because Poilievre was influenced by grassroots members passing it at the 2023 Convention in Quebec City.

Plan to attend Convention 2026

So, I’m asking those who tend to support the CPC to consider becoming a Convention Delegate for 2026, once the delegation selection meetings are announced, which will likely be within in a few months.

In order to be selected as a delegate, you first have to become a member of the Conservative Party, which you can do by joining here.

PRO TIP: Your odds of getting selected as one of the ten individuals that each EDA (electoral district association) can send to Convention will be greatly increased if you volunteer to join the board of your local EDA. That’s done by putting your name forward at the EDA’s annual general meeting (AGM), which will happen between late June to end of September for most Conservative riding associations across Canada.

You can try to find contact info for your local EDA President (to indicate your interest in joining the board) at the CPC’s listing of all 343 Conservative EDAs in Canada, here: https://www.conservative.ca/team/edas/

Local policy meetings: Another reason to join your EDA board

Even if you’re not interested in attending, or can’t travel to the convention as a delegate, nevertheless, by joining your local EDA board you may potentially have the opportunity to submit pro-life and pro-family policy resolutions, or to help advance ones written by others.

If passed at the local EDA level, your policy proposal then moves onto a regional vote, and if passed there, continues moving along the process, until, if it continues to receive broad grassroots support, it finally reaches the floor of the National Convention.

This is why we desperately need to pack the country’s 343 CPC EDA boards with so-cons who will be in a position to submit and vote in favour of policies and constitutional amendments that advance the pro-life and pro-family cause.

In fact, if you’re already a director-at-large of your EDA, please consider volunteering at the upcoming AGM to serve as the Policy Chair or the EDA President, where your influence on the policy process would be even greater.

Again, to look up contact info for your local CPC EDA to indicate a desire to join the board as a director, click here.

Opportunity #2: Amplify the voices of smaller parties

I recognize that many of our supporters aren't Conservative Party voters, and that they may prefer one of the smaller parties that are better aligned with our values, such as the Christian Heritage Party (CHP), the United Party of Canada (UPC), or the People’s Party of Canada (PPC).

These parties also need dedicated pro-lifers to strengthen their grassroots efforts, to recruit quality pro-life candidates, and to amplify their voices so they can reach the Canadian electorate with policy proposals that affirm life and family.

If you tend to support these parties, please contact them to learn how you can join their EDA board, or perhaps even, to help establish an EDA where none currently exists:

Christian Heritage Party
[email protected]
613-248-1818
Website: www.chp.ca/get-involved/start-an-eda

People’s Party of Canada
[email protected]
Website: www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca

United Party of Canada
[email protected]
Website: www.unitedpartyofcanada.com

PRO-LIFE POLITICS MATTER

Becoming an EDA board member isn’t just about politics—it’s about standing up for the sanctity of life, the family, and our shared values.

Whether you join the CPC, CHP, PPC, or UPC, your involvement can help nominate pro-life candidates, craft policies that protect the unborn, and ensure our voices are heard.

So please, prayerfully consider where God is calling you to serve.

Feel free to contact us here at Campaign Life Coalition if you have any questions. If you end up joining a party or decide that you’re willing to join a local EDA Board, please shoot me an email to let me know, at [email protected].

Together, we can build a Canada that upholds life and family.

God bless.