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   . . . .  Someone who would cast a vote for a candidate BASED ON A SINGLE   
   ISSUE, rather than for the many other platforms and issues which affect   
   everyone in the country.   
   And it's no surprise that this 'advice' is coming from an anti-abortion,   
   pro-life, Harper Conservative party radical.  That's where the majority   
   of them are: in the Conservative Party.   
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   Wed Apr 09, 2014   
      
      
   Canadian Tory MP: Vote for pro-life candidates, not party   
      
      
   TORONTO, April 9, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life Conservative MP   
   Kyle Seeback told attendees at Campaign Life Coalition’s national   
   pro-life conference on the weekend that when he was first elected three   
   years ago, he would have told people to “vote Conservative” to make a   
   pro-life difference in the country.   
      
   “I don’t agree with that anymore. You have to find the right person to   
   vote for, regardless of the party affiliation on this issue,” he said.   
      
   Seeback, who is the sitting MP for Brampton West but who will be seeking   
   election in the new riding of Brampton South, told about 200 conference   
   attendees at the Woodbine Banquet and Convention Hall in Toronto of his   
   hope that the 2011 election, which secured a majority Conservative   
   government, would bring some “real progress on life issues.”   
      
   Instead of progress, Seeback related how even the most meager of   
   pro-life initiatives — including Stephen Woodworth’s Motion 312 that   
   would have struck a committee to examine the humanity of the unborn and   
   Mark Warawa’s Motion 408 to have the House condemn the practice of   
   sex-selective abortion — have not received the necessary votes or have   
   been deliberately killed at committee.   
      
   The 98 MPs who voted for Woodworth’s motion two years ago had a “price   
   to pay,” he said, adding that the pressure to oppose the motion was   
   “enormous.”   
      
   “I was told directly: ‘Voting in favor of this is voting against the   
   prime minister.’”   
      
   Pro-life Conservative MPs have long lamented what they call the   
   “ironclad” discipline of party leader Prime Minister Stephen Harper.   
   Instead of being a conservative leader championing the unborn, as many   
   pro-lifers nationwide had once hoped, Harper has quashed pro-life   
   initiatives from his own party members, declaring time and again that he   
   has no intention of reopening the abortion debate.   
      
   For Seeback, the answer to increasing pro-life representation in the   
   House is a groundswell of “political activism.”   
      
   “We need more people running for office who are committed to being   
   pro-life,” Seeback proposed as a solution.   
      
   He said there are too many MPs who claim to be pro-life, but who lack   
   the backbone when it comes time to vote.   
      
   “I can tell you that during that Stephen Woodworth motion, so many of my   
   colleagues came up to me and said ‘I’m pro-life but…’ Well, I’m not   
   sure   
   what that means, to me it means you’re not pro-life.”   
      
   Seeback said there is only one thing that lets voters know if their   
   candidate or current MP is truly pro-life: “Are they willing to fill out   
   the [Campaign Life Coalition] questionnaire?”   
      
   The Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) questionnaire asks candidates a series   
   of 6 questions related to life issues, beginning with, “Do you believe   
   life begins a conception (fertilization)?”   
   If a candidate answers the questions correctly he or she is given a   
   “supportable” status by CLC.   
      
   Seeback related how he has received a phone call from “political   
   operations” during each election telling him to refuse to answer the CLC   
   pro-life questionnaire.   
      
   “Kyle, we’re telling you not to sign the questionnaire, or there’ll be   
   consequences,” Seeback related of the phone calls he has received and   
   expects to receive in the upcoming nomination battle.   
      
   “And I say: ‘Well, I’m signing it, so good luck.’”   
      
   “Well, there could be trouble.”   
      
   “OK, great, let there be trouble. I’m signing it,” he said to applause.   
      
   Seeback said that if a politician who calls himself or herself   
   “pro-life” will not sign a “piece of paper” stating such, then that   
   person will not be a reliable pro-life vote in Ottawa.   
      
   “When the real pressure comes when you’re in Ottawa and they’re saying:   
   ‘You’re voting against the prime minister,’ I don’t think that person   
   is   
   going to stand up.”   
      
   Seeback said that pro-life people need to get pro-life candidates for   
   mainline parties running in every riding.   
      
   “That’s my message to everyone today. Please look where you live.   
   Support your pro-life candidates. If they don’t have one, get someone.”   
      
   “You don’t have to look around either and say, ‘Oh, whose going to do   
   that?’ Look at yourself. You can do it. I did it. I’ve worked on   
   elections but I just decided one day I’m going to do this. I worked for   
   a year, signed up members, and I won.”   
      
   “If I can do it, there’s 20 people in this room who can do it,” he said.   
      
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