By CAROLE MACKENZIE
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentary
As I write this, it is one day after Canada Day. The day I declared to be “Proud to be Canadian.”
Today I am NOT proud to have any connection with my country’s name being a part of the Order of Canada.
Reading the July 2 newspaper re: Dr. Henry Morgentaler being nominated for the Order of Canada, my soul cried and the sadness I felt to have my great country, Canada, honour Dr. Henry Morgentaler, the man who made/makes millions to kill, murder or tear babies apart (a child is a child inside the womb or outside. It is not a choice, it is a child. Replace “choice” with “responsibility”) by giving Morgentaler the “country’s highest civilian honour to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement and dedication to community.” This takes my breath away, it takes my pride away and it takes millions of innocent little babies away, by a death that is horrific.
Often it is necessary to separate government from country to stand proud, but when the government, or its officials use our country’s name for such despicable reasons, then you tend to even want to separate yourself from your country’s name. Please consider renaming the Order of Canada, as Canadians are a proud people and would then have the option of separating themselves from these abhorrent acts and be able to stand up and say we are proud of our country.
The high court of Canada allowed Morgentaler be instrumental in striking down the Criminal Code restrictions on abortion (as it IS criminal to take a life) to make Canada the only western democracy with no criminal sanction of any kind against abortion. In other words, we are the only western country that allows babies to be murdered.
God forgive us!
Quoting Judy Rebick, feminist, “Dr. Morgentaler is a change agent, and we should celebrate that in this country.” I believe “we” should celebrate life, not death in our great country.
Ian Hunter is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario – “Giving Dr. Morgentaler the Order of Canada is a symbol of moral decay. Do not honour men without honour.”
God help our children if we set Dr. Morgentaler up as an example of a Canadian hero. In our great land is there not a more deserving person? So many contributions have been made to our country by just and honourable people. Where are they when you have the honours to present? Forgotten? Lost? How proud we should be of a person receiving the Order of Canada. How disgraced to demoralize that honour.
The Order of Canada award will be nothing more than a piece of garbage from the gutter from the day on, if it is given to Morgentaler
As they say in the United States, “God Bless America,” I say, “God Forgive Canada.”
Carole Mackenzie lives in Beaver Harbour.
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Re: “The high court of Canada allowed Morgentaler be instrumental in striking down the Criminal Code restrictions on abortion ... to make Canada the only western democracy with no criminal sanction of any kind against abortion.”
Section 223 of the Canadian Criminal Code refers to “a child before or during its birth”. The author of Section 223 admits that a “child” in the body of its mother is in “a living state”.
Section 218 of the Canadian Criminal Code states:
“Every one who unlawfully abandons or exposes a child who is under the age of ten years, so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is or is likely to be permanently injured,
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; or
(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months.”.
It is unlawful in Canada to abandon or expose a child so that its life is endangered.
Aborting a child involves abandoning or exposing a child so that its life is endangered.
Aborting a child is unlawful in Canada.
What is needed is for people to exercise their “right to choose” to enforce Section 218 of the Canadian Criminal Code.
I'm not certain that anything to do with the Order of Canada is the best reason for a lack of Canadian pride.
For example,
our embarassing national environmental policy (or lack of),
our systematic dependence on third world labour to maintain our "consumer culture",
or maybe the simple lack of government responsible to the population instead of big business... there are many reasons not to blindly wave a red and white flag and assume we are better than Americans or whatever our source of national pride may be. Like many others, I could care less about the Order of Canada or who gets it. There are far more pressing problems for our nation.
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