Fixing up Canada

The National Post currently has an ongoing “Fixing Canada Series”, in which a number of prominent writers are being asked a simple question: If you had the power to change a single thing about Canada, what would it be?Raymond de Souza recounts the different proposals in today’s Post.  Among them it is worthwhile reading Michael Coren’s impassioned plea to remedy’s Canada’s lack of any sort of abortion law.  Coren has written often in pro-life magazines and papers; however it is one thing preaching to the choir, and quite another publishing this stinging blow to what he calls the Canadian feminist movement, and simply “Canada’s attitude”, by which we can suppose he means the government that finances abortion.  This comes on the heels of a debate about a pregnant Winnipeg woman who was murdered because she did not want to have an abortion, and yet the killer could not be charged with double homicide. Here’s how he begins:

It is tragically ironic that the most vital and profound issue facing this country is considered by many of its citizens and most of its establishment to be at best irrelevant and at worst a dangerous digression championed by zealots. The issue is, of course, abortion. And Canada is almost unique in the civilized world in having no abortion law at all. In other words, any unborn child can be aborted and in most of the country the taxpayer will finance the procedure.Can we, however, genuinely regard ourselves as part of a “civilized world” if we treat our most vulnerable with such indifference? What is supposed to be the safest place for a human being — the womb — has been transformed into a slaughterhouse for humanity, with more than 100,000 abortions in Canada each year.    

 The rest can be found here.  Also worthwhile is the column by Fr. Raymond de Souza on that Winnipeg woman.  Let’s hope the debate continues, for the silence on this central question is really deafening.  As one reader said: A culture of life is a culture leading to great endeavours. A culture of death, which includes abortion, is a dead end. Whatever else we can think of improving will only be cosmetic.