War on Christianity: Tanya Granic Allen Strikes Back

Last week, Tanya Granic Allen was barred from running for Ontario MLA in the June election by Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford, apparently for things she said years ago that were taken out of context and blown out of proportion by the liberal media in Canada.

I appreciate the National Post giving Granic Allen a place to air her side of the story. I am disappointed in Doug Ford and the PC party of Ontario kowtowing to the liberal media which warmly embraces the extreme left policies of Kathleen Wynne.

Tanya Granic Allen: I've been slandered.

It's time to set the facts straight

The accusation by the Liberals and the press that I am somehow against the dignity and human rights of LGBT+ people is a lie

Special to National Post

A lot has been said about me in the media in the past few weeks. In these stories, quotes were taken out of context and slanderous allegations made.

I wanted to explain my position weeks ago. I was under strict instructions, however, from Doug Ford’s team to be quiet and let them handle it. I obliged. I was a “team player.” I didn’t speak with the mainstream media.

That was a mistake. Ford’s team did nothing to help me — indeed, they cast me aside. So I’ll speak now, and set the facts straight.

I am a daughter of immigrants: my mother is from Malta, my father is from Croatia. Croatia was ruled by the Yugoslav Communists for generations, people of all faiths (Croatia has a massive Catholic majority) were persecuted. As in all Marxist regimes, it was official policy to attack the traditional family and the bond between parents and children. The country liberated itself in the 1990s after a bloody war. My family experienced much of this upheaval; some were killed.

Ontario PC supporters, including those protesting the ejection of candidate Tanya Granic Allen from the PC list of candidates, gather in Toronto ahead of the first televised Ontario election leaders debate on May 7, 2018. Chris Young/CP

In 2014, while eight months pregnant (and on medication with a serious related illness) I spoke at a Catholic Croatian youth conference, at a Croatian Catholic Church in Ontario. I expressed my shock (“vomit in disbelief” was the emotive phrase I used) that the then-government of Croatia, a land only recently free, was embracing a policy of compulsory sex-ed and promotion of the doctrine of gay marriage on the children. My comment of sickened disbelief was not aimed at gay marriage per se, but at the fact that so many lives had been lost to secure our freedom of religion, only to have new oppressors emerge some 20 years later.

As a practicing Catholic, I support the teachings of the Catholic Church, including the traditional definition of marriage. I support that teaching,and I also believe in the dignity of all individuals. I am also a proud Canadian, and I obey our laws, even those I disagree with. In my campaign for Ontario PC leader, and in Mississauga Centre, not once did I comment on the issue of same-sex marriage. That is a long-settled federal issue, not a provincial one.

As a practicing Catholic, I support the teachings of the Catholic Church, including the traditional definition of marriage

   

The accusation by the Liberals and the press that I am somehow against the dignity and human rights of LGBT+ people — or to use the popular term, “homophobic” — is a lie. Furthermore, it is a slur against the Catholic faith and, indeed, against people of all faiths who hold their religious values dear, but who are also responsible citizens of a free and democratic and tolerant Canada.

In 2013, Quebec introduced the Charter of Values, which sought to limit these freedoms by restricting religious expression from the public square. At the time, I criticized Quebec for its radical, anti-religious secularism; for trying to ban the turban, the cross, the yarmulke, the hijab, and, yes, face veils like the niqab and the burka.

At the time, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek blog in an attempt to expose their discrimination against freedom of religion. Even though I take issue with the niqab and the burka, I also support freedom of expression and freedom of religion. If a woman in Canada, of her own free will, wants to wear such garments, then it is her right to do so. Of course, my concerns with the burka and niqab, despite my overall defence of religious liberty, were twisted by the Liberals and the Toronto Star into an accusation that I was “Islamophobic.”

I am not against sexual education and believe it has a place,

but not Wynne’s radical version

In 2016, I took over as head of a parental rights group called Parents As First Educators (PAFE). Our focus has been the repeal of the anti-family, anti-religion Kathleen Wynne sex-education curriculum. I am not against sexual education and believe it has a place. But not Wynne’s radical version. I have been an outspoken advocate for the rights of all parents in this province, which include those from the Jewish, Muslim, atheist, Christian, Sikh, Hindu, and LGBT+ community.

For this, I have been accused of wanting to force my religious views on the people of Ontario using the sex-ed curriculum. That is incorrect. I support the true separation of church and state, but that separation has to go both ways, which includes religious liberty free of state interference. Ontario parents have had to endure the state’s overreach into their lives under Premier Wynne. I simply hope to restore a more proper balance.

Thankfully, that may soon come. The days are numbered for the Kathleen Wynne Liberals. And while Doug Ford has broken the promise he made to me, I am not going away. Nor is PAFE. Nor are the other freedom-loving, pro-family voters and activists who helped make Doug Ford PC leader. When the PCs win a majority government on June 7, we all look forward to continuing the fight for Ontario children, parents, and families.

Tanya Granic Allen is the president of Parents As First Educators (PAFE) and was a candidate for the 2018 Ontario PC Leadership.

Is Ontario Shifting to the Right, or Just Up-Righting?

Tanya Granic Allen

We recently documented Europe's 'listing to starboard' - a clear response to far-left policies and actions of governments which were leading their countries into cultural suicide with uncontrolled Islamic migration.

Islamization is not a big problem in North America, yet, although it is rising and perhaps some people's excessive reaction to that problem is a bigger problem. 

In Ontario, the Premier, Kathleen Wynne, is a lesbian, a Liberal, and far to the left of any premier who has gone before, even the NDP 's Bob Rae, who was an absolute disaster. Liberals are supposed to be centrists and NDPs leftists. But Wynne has taken the provincial Liberal party far to the left of even the NDP, just as Justin Trudeau has taken the federal Liberals far to the left of the federal NDPs.

As pointed out in a recent post, when you steer a ship to port (left), it will list (lean) to starboard (right). It is not Islamization that has caused this list but the use of the educational system to inflict a far-left version of cultural progress, or social engineering on Ontarians.

Wynne employed, among others possibly, the Deputy Minister of Education, Benjamin Levin, to write a new curriculum with regard to gender equality and bullying. But Levin had to step down as DM after he was charged with and convicted of having child pornography. Levin is a paedophile!

His curriculum was very much about normalizing homosexuality and transgenderism from a very young age. This is bolstered by libraries across Canada embracing drag queens, in full costume, going into classrooms and reading to little children as if that is supposed to be anything close to normal. 

There is little mention of child sex abuse - safe touch/unsafe touch, who to tell and how to tell, etc., etc. in the curriculum. Nor is there any mention that gender dysphoria is a disease and there are options to deal with it. They teach that it is quite normal for a man to look down at his scrotum and decide that he is a woman. Extreme liberalism!

Wynne's other big problem is having sold 50.1% of Hydro One, a Crown Corporation until then. Hydro One is the primary electrical distribution company for Ontario. Hydro One suffers from aging infrastructure and consequently, rates jumped spectacularly after the sale. Many homes are paying several hundred dollars per month for hydro even after measures to reduce usage.

Wynne's solution to this issue, after nightmare stories came out of people being, or threatening to be cut off because they couldn't pay the extraordinary increase in their bills, was to reduce everyone's hydro bill by 25%, which will be underwritten by the government. Consequently, all taxpayers in Ontario will pay for the increased hydro rates for decades to come.

Now the story really gets bizarre:

In 2017, Hydro One agreed to acquire U.S. energy company Avista for C$6.7 billion in cash! Where did they get $6.7 bn in cash? Why didn't they invest that money into Hydro One's aging infrastructure? Where will they get the money to invest in Hydro One's infrastructure?

Christine Elliott

Ontario Conservative Party leader Patrick Brown put forward an idea to fix the Hydro One problem, and with Kathleen Wynn's approval rating down around 12%, it appeared he would get a chance to employ that solution after a provincial election in June. Then #MeToo came along (2nd story on link) and Patrick Brown suddenly and dramatically resigned just a few months before a provincial election. He went kicking and screaming, then joined the race to be his own successor, and a few days later, withdrew from that.

Caroline Mulroney

That sounds more like BC politics than Ontario. Nevertheless, the extremely rushed leadership convention occurred last week with 3 high profile and very different contenders, plus one relative unknown. The list included Christine Elliott, the wife of the late, and very popular, federal Finance Minister under Stephen Harper, Jim Flaherty; Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of long-retired Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; and Doug Ford, the brother of the late, internationally infamous, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. 

The 4th candidate was a dark horse with no political experience and no pedigree. She is, however, the head of a parental rights group called PAFE - Parents As First Educators. It was clear Tanya Granic Allen was not going to win the contest and Canada's left leaning media often completely ignored her in their 30 second sound bites they call news. But Granic Allen made a significant impression in the few opportunities she had and received a number of 1st choice selections on the leadership ballot.

The ballot was structured to choose 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices so that in the event of no-one getting enough votes on the first count, the candidate with the fewest 1st place votes would drop off and their ballots would revert to their 2nd choice. Most of Granic Allen's voters chose Doug Ford as their 2nd choice and that was enough to push him ahead of Christine Elliott in a very close race.

Doug Ford, an outsider to provincial politics except that his father was once a backbench MPP, was the most right wing of the candidates with the exception of Granic Allen. He stated that he would change school curriculum to reflect societal norms rather than extreme left-wing ideologies. He also stated that he would allow MPPs to bring forward bills challenging the right to abortion. Both of these positions are probably due to Tanya Granic Allen's presence and forceful presentations on the candidacy platforms.

Granic Allen hasn't decided if she will run for MPP in June, but if she does, I would expect her to be a powerhouse of an MPP, possibly in the cabinet, and a possible successor to Ford sometime in the future if she can survive the disdain of Canadian media.

When a ship lists to starboard because it is steering to port there are only two options: continue to steer to port and go around and around in circles, or, steer to starboard until the ship is upright again. Ontarians deserve an upright ship for a change.

Scissors Hijab Attack on 11yo Girl That Triggered Outcry ‘Did Not Happen’ – Canadian Police

It would be really interesting to know why the girl did this, although we are unlikely to ever really find out. I hope someone finds out, for it seems to me that there is much more to this story. Was her outcry, in fact, an cry for help?

Khawlah Noman, 11, speaks to reporters with her mother at Pauline Johnson Junior Public School, after she told police that a man cut her hijab with scissors in Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 12, 2018. Chris Helgren / Reuters

Toronto police have confirmed that an alleged scissors attack on a schoolgirl’s hijab, which sparked widespread outrage including a public condemnation by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was a hoax.

An 11-year-old girl claimed on Friday that a man twice tried to cut off her hijab as she walked to school with her brother. Police say the investigation is now concluded and “the events described in the original news release did not happen.” It’s still not clear why the girl reported the false incident.

The story captured national attention and was denounced by Prime Minister Trudeau, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Twitter.

@JustinTrudeau

My heart goes out to Khawlah Noman following this morning’s cowardly attack on her in Toronto. Canada is an open and welcoming country, and incidents like this cannot be tolerated.

@Kathleen_Wynne

This is a cowardly act of hatred, and it has no place in Ontario. This does not represent who we are. We must stand firm in our support of this young girl who was assaulted simply for wearing a hijab.

Mayor John Tory responded to the clarification that the event never happened by saying: “It is good to know that this event didn’t happen. We all must remain vigilant in the fight against hate, racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to make sure our city remains an inclusive place.”

In this case, Toronto Police have investigated and determined that the events described did not happen.

Police told CBC News that the girl who reported the incident will not face any legal consequences.

“These allegations were extremely serious and, not surprisingly, they received national and international attention,” police spokesman Mark Pugash said in an interview.

He added that it is “very unusual” for someone to make false allegations of this type and said he hopes it will not discourage others from coming forward.

The girl’s school, Pauline Johnson Junior Public School in Scarborough, contacted police after she told them about the incident. The Toronto District School Board then put her before the media on Friday to recount the matter.

The school board issued a release, Monday, saying it was happy the incident did not really happen, adding it would not be commenting further.

19-y/o Homeschooled Christian Wins Ontario By-Election by Landslide

    19-year-old Sam Oosterhoff, now the youngest MPP in Ontario history

(LifeSiteNews) — A 19-year-old homeschool graduate and pro-life advocate won a provincial by-election by a landslide Thursday night, becoming the youngest Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario history.

Sam Oosterhoff, who suspended his first year of political science studies at Brock University to run, sailed to victory in the Niagara West-Glanbrook riding, winning 54 percent of the vote in the constituency previously held by former Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak.

Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) pointed out that the young politician earned the overwhelming victory despite a "relentless smear campaign" by the ruling Liberal party and the mainstream media.

The homeschooled teen ran as a “pro-life and pro-family politician, and the result was the highest vote percentage since at least the past five elections,” Fonseca told LifeSiteNews. He noted that Oosterhoff’s 54 percent of the popular vote was a 28 percent increase over Hudak’s 41.8 percent in 2014.

Oosterhoff had already stunned the PC Party establishment and political pundits when he beat long-time political veteran and PC Party president Rick Dykstra, Brown’s friend and chosen candidate, in the PC nomination race last month.

A member of the Canadian Reformed Church, and former political staffer, Oosterhoff promised during his campaign that he would “be a voice for common-sense, pro-family policies and concerns.” He also said he would “never waver in my support of parents as primary educators," and would "strive to ensure that parental rights are respected in education.”

'Socially conservative politicians can win elections by being unapologetic'

A runaway victory for a pro-life Progressive Conservative teen and a clear defeat for a socially liberal Tory in Thursday’s provincial byelections is a lesson for PC leader Patrick Brown, says Fonseca.

“What this teaches us is that socially conservative politicians can win elections by being unapologetic about their pro-life and pro-family beliefs,” he told LifeSiteNews.

This is especially true now when Ontario is being run by a provincial government that can only be described as 'far-left'! It's not time to slide left; it's time to stand up and say, 'that's enough!'

The “dramatic spike in PC fortunes achieved by Sam suggests that being a social conservative who can tap into ‘values voters’ might actually offer a significant political advantage,” Fonseca added.

“It also shows that opposing Kathleen Wynne’s radical sex curriculum was a winning strategy for Niagara West-Glanbrook,” he noted. “And believe me, the people of Niagara West-Glanbrook cast their ballots for the socially-conservative Sam, not for the liberal Patrick Brown.”

Wynne's sex-ed curriculum was called 'dangerous' by a US psychiatrist.

Liberals hold Ottawa-Vanier in 2nd byelection

But the Liberals held fast to their traditional stronghold of Ottawa-Vanier, where PC candidate Andre Marin badly trailed the victor, civil rights lawyer Nathalie Des Rosiers, at 30 percent to her 48 percent in a riding held by retiring Liberal MPP Madeleine Meilleur since 2003.

In that showing, PC leader Patrick Brown reaped the consequences for his notorious flip-flop over the Liberals’ controversial sex-ed curriculum, contended Fonseca, who compared this race with the September Scarborough-Rouge River byelection.

The PC’s Raymond Cho had earlier won that traditionally Liberal riding, but Fonseca asserts his success had a lot to do with the infamous letter the PC campaign circulated in the riding during the campaign — a letter signed by Brown that promised to “scrap the sex-ed.”

Brown later disavowed the letter, and has since publicly and consistently endorsed the Liberal sex-ed curriculum, but “it has to be recognized that in Scarborough Rouge River, Brown presented himself to voters as a social conservative who would repeal the unpopular sex curriculum,” Fonseca pointed out.

“That’s a stark contrast to Brown’s position going into Ottawa-Vanier, where he was the curriculum's number one fan,” he noted, adding: “I don’t think this difference should be ignored by analysts who are trying to figure out why the PCs got trounced in Round 2 of the rematch in Liberal-stronghold-land.”

“Too many Conservative politicians don’t understand the importance of standing on principle,” Fonseca observed. “Instead, they turn tail and run as soon as they feel the slightest pressure from liberals, and as a result, end up being seen as lacking integrity.”

That not only alienates the “natural so-con base of the Party,” who make up at least 40 percent of the Party’s natural base, says Fonseca, but also puts off the “mushy middle type of voter who doesn’t care about moral issues but wants to vote for the person who seems the most honest and principled.”

Meanwhile, Elizabeth de Viel Castel, candidate for the neophyte party Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda, captured 400 votes in Ottawa-Vanier, coming in fifth in an 11-candidate field.

Indeed, the two anti-sex-ed candidates, de Viel Castel and Stephanie McEvoy of the Canadian Constituent’s Party, garnered 1.6 percent of the popular vote, noted Fonseca.

“In under three weeks, as an unknown Party running on a single issue, we gained 4.4 percent of the Progressive Conservative vote — all this without the machinery of a major political party behind us,” de Viel Castel told LifeSiteNews in an email.

“There is now greater public awareness of the serious problems with the new sex-ed curriculum,” added the mother of two, who formerly worked in communications and public relations. “We had a far reach into all regions of Ontario in the press as well as fantastic response on social media, reaching tens of thousands of people in the province.”

Queenie Yu, leader of the new party, echoed this. “For Elizabeth to get 400 votes for a party just starting out is impressive,” she stated in a press release. “Elizabeth did a great job and I am thrilled with how well she did at keeping the sex-ed issue in the news these past few weeks.”

A former PC Party staffer who worked as a fundraiser for the PC Ontario fund, Yu ran in Niagara West-Glanbrook to keep the sex-ed issue front and center, and also attributed Oosterhoff’s strong showing in that riding “to his well-publicized support for parental rights and strong pro-life position.”

Bill 28 - All Families are Equal

“Now that Sam has won, I hope he won’t let Patrick Brown silence him,” Yu stated, adding that the Liberal government’s controversial Bill 28 will soon be up for a final third reading vote.

Oosterhoff reportedly dodged questions during the campaign on whether he supported a repeal of the Liberal sex-ed curriculum and whether he would oppose Bill 28, but according to the Post, he stated there’s a “long-standing tradition within the PC party of allowing members to vote their conscience.”

Brown says the Tories support the Wynne government’s “All Parents are Equal” bill, which legally restructures the family, including substituting “parent” for “mother” and “father,” to accommodate homosexual couples who use IVF techniques to conceive children, according to the Star.

“Sam – please vote against Bill 28!” Yu stated. “The parents of Ontario are counting on you to stand up for them!”

Congratulations, Sam. People please pray for wisdom and godly guidance for this young man.