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Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

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Stockwell Day
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 16
Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Politician
Stockwell Burt Day
Conservative
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Liberal
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My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
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Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
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Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
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Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
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If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
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Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
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Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.
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Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.
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As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
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I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.
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There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.
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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
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Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
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The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
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Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
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Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.
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It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
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The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
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It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
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