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She’s lying alone, with her head on the phone…

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…thinking of us til it hurts. That’s an Air Supply song, to take you right back to my youth. We want the Governor General to be thinking of us about this Morgentaler award. So much that it hurts. I’m not out of love, yet. So call her. This info cut and pasted from 4MyCanada.ca

  1. STEP 1: Program numbers listed below into your speed dial (the most important being the Secretary to the Governor General (613-993-0259) and the Deputy Secretary Order of Canada (613-998-8731)).
  2. STEP 2: Call these numbers every 2nd day and leave a message saying something like, “I am calling to tell you I do not agree with Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada and to ask you to have it rescinded (taken away).”
  3. STEP 3: Save the following e-mails in a group ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected] , [email protected],[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],[email protected]).
  4. STEP 4: Write a letter expressing your heart regarding Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada.
  5. STEP 5: Hit send (to this group list you created in Step 3) every 2nd day!

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Tanya adds: Well, I’ve been following steps 3 to 5 since the 4th of July. Today would be the third time I send in my email. Today is also the first time I get an auto-response from the GG’s office. Clearly, they are experiencing an unusually high volume of emails.

Thank you for writing to the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General. We appreciate hearing your views and suggestions. Responses to specific inquiries can be expected within two to three weeks. Please note that many of the e-mails we receive are in the form of comments or opinions and do not receive a reply. Content that is of an offensive or commercial nature will not receive a response.

 

Due to the large quantity of incoming correspondence, we also cannot reply to e-mails inquiring about the status of a previous request. Thank you for your understanding.

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Andrea adds: Good work, Tanya. I might add, the idea in this is to keep up the pressure for more than a week. We’re talking months here. Yes, you heard me correctly, months. Morning routines will need to be altered to incorporate official correspondence. Shower, coffee, then call the Governor General. That kind of thing.

There would be orphanages

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I once sat down with a woman who runs an abortion clinic for a chat. The conversation had its ups and downs, and certainly got heated in places, but this snippet left the biggest impression on me. She looked at me intensely (everything about abortion is intense) and said: “Do you know what we would have if we had no abortions?” I was sure she was going to say “Back alley abortions.” But no, she said, “orphanages. We would have orphanages.”

Tis better to be dead than poor.

A phonecall every second day keeps injustice away

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That beautiful line of poetry is not, alas, my own.

4mycanada.ca is doing a great job of telling people what to do to counter this Morgentaler honour thing. They suggest calling the Governor General, your Member of Parliament and anyone else on their list on a regular basis for the next little while.

Keep calling, Canada. (Heck, I can see from our site stats that plenty of people in Europe, the UK, and America are logging on. Even a couple in Japan, China… South Africa. Don’t feel left out! You can call too.)  

What’s the legal terminology for that?

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So tonight’s Gerry Cammy Show (580 CFRA) went well. There’s one thing I did not get a chance to say that I really wanted to. That’s what this blog is for! So here I go:

A man called in and expressed his loss and pain at losing an unborn child–he could not convince his partner at the time not to abort. In his words, “I tried everything save for physically restrain her.”

All the pro-choicers on the panel expressed sincere regret about that, and offered sympathy. And I don’t doubt their sincerity, not at all. But the legal term for that sympathy is something like this: “screw you” (not the official latin).  

Because that man has no rights, no ability, no decision-making capacity to actually do anything at all–thanks to this notion that women get pregnant all on their own, and therefore it’s a “woman’s right” to abort. He was good enough to have sex with, but nothing more than that.

This issue ain’t dead yet

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From what I can tell, the Ottawa Citizen alone has three Morgentaler-Order-of-Canada-articles. (Here, here, and here. )

After Morgentaler became a member of the Order of Canada, a pro-choice friend said she thought the manner in which it was awarded was quite “heavy-handed.” That’s where so many of us can unify: Not over our position on abortion but the rule-breaking and secrecy that went on to get him the award. More on that, here.

We might often grumble that the “ruling class” in Canada — the smug, selfserving, “progressive” political, legal, academic, and media elites, including the prime example at Rideau Hall — belong to some other world than the one from which they suck taxes. But seldom is there an event so stark, that we see them as they are. The Morgentaler award revealed that to so many Canadians.

And on that note, keep calling, Canada: The Governor General, your MP, your MLA, and others. See list here. Not happy with this appointment? Do something about it.  

What are you doing tomorrow?

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Why, you’re watching Question Period at noon, and then at five pm (EST) you are listening to 580 CFRA. On Question Period, Rod Bruinooge, MP for Winnipeg South, will debate the Morgentaler award with Martha Hall-Findlay, and in the evening, Brigitte and I will discuss the whole business on the Gerry Cammy show.

Between those two shows, however, you’ll have some time–so you can join the new Facebook group against this award, you can contact your new friends in the Governor General’s office, your Member of Parliament, people on the committee–to politely and continually express your concern over the country’s protocol being broken in order that he might receive a pet present from our Chief Justice. 4MyCanada has done a wonderful job of compiling contact info. You could call a new person every day! Or everyone, every day. Your call (no pun intended).

Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice: This award was given outside of normal protocol. That’s not how we do business. If you are pro-choice ask yourself if you celebrate abortion: because that’s what this award is all about.

One person wrote into this site saying the award makes him feel bad, but he felt still worse for having done nothing on the issue to this point. That’s true of many of us, myself included. Every day is a new day, though, and we can make changes, by acting now.

Demonstration July 9

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“Campaign Life Coalition is organizing a demonstration for concerned Canadian citizens to protest the awarding of the Order of Canada to abortionist Henry Morgentaler and to seek its revocation.

WHERE: Rideau Hall – official residence of the Governor General of Canada

WHEN: Wednesday July 9, 2008 from noon to 2:00pm.

CONTACT: Paul Lauzon [email protected] 613-729-0379″

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Update: It appears the demonstration starts at noon, not 11:00 am as previously mentioned here. Thanks to Cynthia for pointing it out.

If you wear the pin, send it back

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What kind of honour could a person of goodwill possibly have in being a member of the Order of Canada knowing that rules were broken to give it? (Incidentally, this is no small point. Who is proud of “winning” a game when they changed the rules? “Checkmate!–I have your rook.”)

This is a great piece. If you wear the pin, send it back.

My favourite line:

The point here is that the real reason for supporting his award isn’t that he’s controversial, it’s that he’s an abortionist. And it’s no excuse for pushing it through that he’s unwell and it cannot be given posthumously. If there is no afterlife there’s little point rushing to collect attractive coffin decorations and if there is, that little white lapel pin will not help him face his accusers on the other side.

I’ll say.

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Tanya was particularly grabbed by this part: 

Canada is full of “controversial figures” like, say, Don Cherry. But the people who dislike him think he’s a blowhard, not a mass murderer.

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