Theresa Winchester recently sent this letter to Justin Trudeau and to her MP.
I will send a copy to my own MP as well. I encourage others to copy and also send to their MP, with a handwritten note on Theresa's letter. Something like this:
"I agree with the author of this letter to the PM. There is no Charter right to abortion in Canada".
Sign your letter and print your mailing address on it. You can mail your letter postage free to:
[Name of Member of Parliament]
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A6
November 18, 2018
To
the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada:
As
a former Canadian military staff officer, I write to advise you that
you have been badly briefed concerning the contents of the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Certainly, since you are the
PM, you would not want to be misquoting a seminal Canadian document,
particularly one with which your father is intrinsically linked.
Your
pre-election statements about “Charter right to an abortion” were
perhaps excusable. However, since the election, you are
embarrassing yourself with these repeated declarations. Please,
have a look at the enclosed copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms; a woman’s Charter “right to an abortion” is not
there, it just ain’t, no matter how hard you search. Not. There.
While
you are looking closely at the Charter, you will notice a few items
that are
there:
Section
2 (a) Freedom of conscience
Section
2 (b) Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression
The
2018 attestation signatures required to access the federal funding
for summer jobs flies directly in the face of these two Fundamental
Freedoms.
After hearing you speak on this when you were
attempting to defend the indefensible, I thought, “well, following
this argument, when the Conservatives win the next election, he will
accept if the PC party requires that those wanting federal summer
jobs funding sign an attestation stating that the applicant agrees
with an elected senate or some such Conservative platform item”.
Ummmm, you understand that freedom of conscience is all
encompassing, that the Charter doesn’t say “except for topics
which the ruling party disagree with”? Nope.
Section
7 Legal Rights - Right to life
Section
15 (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has a
right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without
discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on
race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or
mental or physical disability.
Mr.
Trudeau, surely your staff advised you of the contents of Sections 7
& 15? These are fairly basic stuff as Charters of
Rights and Freedoms go. So, how do you square them with sex selection
and “might be handicapped” abortions done daily in Canada? Do
you get around the absolute guaranteed rights by telling yourself
that the pre-born are not human and not “individuals” to whom the
Charter applies? Oh, and note the Charter right to protection from
discrimination based on mental or physical disability -- death being
the ultimate discrimination. Doh!
Hmmm,
that “not a human” thing? That is exactly how the great
atrocities of history have occurred, for example, in Nazi Germany and
more recently in Rwanda where individuals who were Jews and Tutsis
were declared to be not human, thereby justifying their killing. Do
you get the connection? Those with power, control and voice
need simply declare those without power, control and voice to be less
than human. In all cases, scientific evidence shows these
declarations contravene basic human rights.
You
declare yourself loud and often as a feminist. Just so’s ya
know, real feminists truly understand how those with power, control
and voice abuse those without power, control and voice. Again,
do you get the connection?
Now,
with a fuller understanding of the Canadian Charter of Human Rights
and Freedoms, your staff needs to create a working document by which
you can gracefully backtrack. This will be the opportunity to
make up for the great harm done to your place in history. In less
than 100 years, humanity will view abortion in the same way that we
now see the formerly acceptable practise of human slavery -- those
with no power, control or voice versus the loud, the powerful, the
controlling. Your record as a PM who wrongly defended abortion
as solely about a women’s non-existent
Charter
right to choose will speak for itself - seriously, how embarrassing
would that be??
Yours
sincerely,
Theresa
Winchester, OMM, CD, rmc
