Man-oh-man, do I have an action-packed, drama-filled report for you today!

There was chaos and social-media uproar, and it all started with standing up for truth in the lions’ den.

CLC’s political action team is back from Calgary now, where they participated in the Conservative Party of Canada’s national convention.

Overall, the CPC convention was a big success! Here’s a list of our wins:

• Five constitutional amendments passed. These will make it harder for corrupt red Tories to rig nominations, unfairly disqualify pro-life nomination candidates, and to manipulate dates to engineer undemocratic appointments.
   
• 10 pro-faith, pro-freedom policy resolutions passed. These include a commitment to protect Christian charities (including pro-life ones), a pledge to protect licensed professionals from having their accreditation revoked solely for voicing their opinion or refusing compelled speech, opposition to political debanking, defunding the pro-abortion CBC, and more.
   
• Nine out of 11 available seats up for grabs in National Council elections were won by pro-grassroots democracy candidates. These individuals will oppose any attempt to rig nominations, un-democratically appoint candidates, and unfairly disqualify pro-lifers. This is a really big deal because it will ensure that more socially conservative candidates get elected as MPs.

Abortion legislation and Anti-Gender Ideology policies were front and centre

The most dramatic – and chaotic - moments in the convention by far came from two socially conservative policy resolutions that were only narrowly defeated.

Although they didn’t go our way, these votes totally shattered the CPC establishment’s carefully-crafted illusion that the CPC is basically fiscally conservative and socially liberal, an illusion that successive CPC leaders have tried to maintain in the vain hope that the biased mainstream media will stop attacking them.

Youth Delegate: “Abortion is murder!”

There were three pro-life policies on the floor which received vigorous and much-needed debate on January 30th.

One of those resolutions was called "Life-Affirming Care and Post-Abortion Support Framework". It didn't pass, getting only 45% support from delegates, but a "God moment" happened during the debate, which I want to share.

A youth delegate named Hunter made a bold pro-life statement, calling out out abortion as “murder” from the debate mic.

No compromise with evil from that young man.

I have to admit, I love his bold truth-telling! What a great message to share with all the mushy-middle delegates and MPs who never pause to think about the unborn victims of abortion violence.

Our biggest policy objective however, was to delete article #86, the CPC’s existing statement that: “A Conservative government will not support any legislation to regulate abortion”.

Despite the Delete #86 policy failing to pass, it nonetheless mustered an impressive 40% YES votes from the 638 total delegates in the room!

Notably, that 40% was achieved in spite of the leader’s office putting its thumb on the scale by sending pro-abortion MP Roman Baber out as a proxy, to speak against the policy, and to sway the room with his MP “star power”.

The tactic was effective and certainly swayed the votes of many delegates. However, it was not able to conceal the fact that at least 40% of the party’s base is actually pro-life! That’s huge.

We are not discouraged by this result.

The opposite. We’re very much encouraged.

In two years, when the next convention rolls around, we’ll just bring more pro-life delegates to overwhelm the room such that no amount of scale-tipping by MPs - or the Leader himself - will matter.

Bill C-4, the Liberal law that criminalizes parents for affirming their daughters as girls, and sons as boys

The biggest controversy of the entire three-day convention came from the narrow defeat of a parental rights policy resolution which stated:

“We believe that parents have the right to arrange for body-affirming talk therapy for their gender-confused child, and we oppose the federal “Conversion Therapy Ban” which criminalizes parents for doing so.”

Our own Jack Fonseca, a delegate from Ontario, introduced the policy, asking everyone to vote Yes so that the Conservative Party would officially oppose Justin Trudeau’s so-called “conversion therapy” ban which prescribes five years in jail for parents who obtain body-affirming counselling for their gender-confused child.

Given that Premier Danielle Smith has increased her popularity by pushing similar, anti-gender ideology policies, everyone assumed this would sail through with a significant victory margin.

However, a pro-LGBT British Columbia MP, Tamara Kronis, got up to the NO mic and urged delegates to vote against it. By the way, she used to be a Director at Egale, the most extreme LGBT activist group in Canada.

After debate ended and the vote was called, the electronic clicker machines suddenly failed, resulting in the vote having to be redone three different times. Curiously, no other policy resolution experienced such a pronounced malfunction; only this one, the one the party establishment found controversial.

And when the shocking result came back – that it passed an initial test with 52% Yes votes and 48% No votes, but failed to get a double majority of provinces and therefore would NOT become official CPC policy – the “Clickergate” conspiracy was born.

It looked downright suspicious, and a lot of delegates on the floor were asking each other whether the result was fraudulent. My colleague, Jack Fonseca, will write a separate article about the “Clickergate” scandal in the coming days.

Once again, we’re not discouraged by this result.

Whether the room was simply swayed by MP Tamara Kronis, or whether there was some tampering with the votes, it sent a powerful message to Pierre Poilievre and the CPC that grassroots conservatives want action to be taken.

They want Bill C-4 repealed so parents can no longer be prosecuted for helping their kids be at peace with their bodies.

In fact, so many Conservatives were shocked that this policy failed to be adopted, that it dominated Twitter/X for the next three days, with tremendous criticism of the CPC. Conservative members and activists were hopping mad!

Popular influencers like Billboard Chris Elston tore a strip off the party for its cowardice in refusing to protect children from chemical castration and surgical mutilation. This heavy, online criticism of Poilievre continues as of this writing, with many influencers still demanding the party take a stand against C-4.

I think God is using the defeat of the policy resolution in an unexpected way, which, in the long-term, may bless our nation even more than had it passed. After all, He is a God of surprises.

Planning for the 2028 Convention

A sort of indirect victory is that so-cons showed strength in numbers at this convention, and sent an unmistakable, non-ignorable message to the red Tory party establishment that we are demanding – and we deserve – a seat at the table!

We cannot let this momentum go to waste.

We’ve heard rumours that the 2028 CPC national convention will take place in Toronto. If we can recruit an additional 300 pro-lifers to commit, right now, to becoming a voting delegate for their EDA and coming to convention, we'll have a clean sweep on every vote.

We’ll pass every constitutional amendment. Every policy resolution. We’ll win every National Councillor election.

This is not a pipe dream. It’s extremely doable. Just think about it...

There are 343 federal ridings across Canada. Recruiting an additional 300 pro-lifers to get involved represents fewer than one extra pro-life delegate per riding.

The pro-life, pro-family movement is quite large across the country. If all the various groups that work in this space of politics pitches in towards “Project 300”, I believe we can make it happen for 2028 and have clean sweep victories that can save Canada from the moral degradation we’ve been witnessing for so many years.

If you are a CPC member reading this now who was not a Calgary delegate, or if you’re not a member but feel inspired to get involved, and feel the Holy Spirit calling you to make a commitment for Convention 2028 in Toronto, please email me now by clicking here.