In an email to Big Blue Wave, Family Coalition Party lead Giuseppe Gori slammed the Carleton University Students Association for tabling a motion that would deny any group espousing pro-life views from having access to CUSA resources. He characterizes CUSA's move to declare itself pro-abortion as as "acquiring power by exclusion of opponents" and "holding power by self-proclamation". He qualifies such tactics as "fascist".
To illustrate his point, he makes the following analogy:
He writes:
If I told you that a party in Canada, say the Liberal party, wanted to exclude access to taxpayers money and public resources to another party, say the Communist party of Canada, because it deemed communist policies “contrary to the Canadian Charter”, would you believe it?
What if the same party wanted to exclude from government ANY other party that does not hold liberal values, could you believe such a motion would even be considered?
He says that CUSA's willingness to eliminate an opposing viewpoint is indicative of the abysmal quality of civic education in schools today. He mentions that the current state of affairs in regards to abortion cames through judicial activism, not consensus. The Supreme Court rulings of the 1980's allowed abortions to be performed without prosecution; they did not establish a right to abortion.
The Mulroney Government, in response to these decisions, attempted to pass legislation, Bill C-43, all in keeping with the judges' vision of the Charter, which allowed for some restriction.
According to Mr. Gori: "For a student body to claim that opposition to abortion is 'un-constitutional' denotes ignorance and deception."
