So Canada has voted for change. Change can be good, there’s no denying that. But when change comes with a rejection of open discussion, when change comes with requirements that MPs vote the party line or lose their jobs, then change is not good.\u00a0 We now have a majority government in which that majority is muzzled on their own personal opinions, personal morals, and, by extension, the opinions of their constituents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Granted, all parties can and should expect a certain level of adherence to party platforms. One doesn’t run for the Conservatives while harbouring the belief that we should allow open immigration to all. Nor does one run for the NDP while believing large corporations are the way of the future.\u00a0<\/span>But issues of conscience, morals, and religious belief should not preclude anyone from political involvement.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Honorable Justin Trudeau has gone on record stating that no one can be Liberal and vote pro-life, on any bill. Euthanasia is something to seriously consider, and abortion is a promoted choice, a women’s rights issue, even a necessity. At the same time, he claims to be a strong supporter of science. So fortunately for Trudeau, and even more fortunately for the pre-born children he casually dismisses, science tells us the abortion debate needs to be re-opened.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Trudeau’s thank-you speech focused on his “old-fashioned strategy” of talking to people, and really listening to them. Yet somehow he failed to talk to anyone who cared about life, or at least he failed to do that listening he’s so proud of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Perhaps Canadians are in part to blame. Perhaps we didn’t bring up the issue of pre-born human rights as loudly and as clearly as we meant to. Perhaps we still don’t fully understand the implications of our “no-laws” approach to abortion, an approach that allows abortions at any stage, for any reason, from convenience to gender preference.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n But sc<\/span>ience tells us unequivocally that babies are complete, unique, living human beings from conception onward, with their own DNA, their hair and eye colour already determined. They possess the ability to grow and develop at an astonishing rate, and the potential only to develop into a human being, nothing less.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n