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Based on an interview with a constituent, CLC has rated Adam Smith as pro-life and pro-family.

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No response to CLC's 2024 New Brunswick provincial election questionnaire

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In January 2020, as a Saint John City Councillor, David Hickey put forward a draconian Motion to "curtail or eliminate" what is being disingenuously labelled "conversion therapy", throughout the City of Saint John. The Motion, which ultimately seeks to impose a formal by-law banning access to this beneficial therapy for thousands of citizens and their families, was instigated by Hickey in reaction to the anecdotal experience of his former high-school classmate's unsuccessful therapy treatments.

At its 2024 convention, the New Brunswick Liberal Party, under leader Susan Holt, became officially pro-abortion and anti-parental rights when resolutions were passed to extend public funding to abortions committed outside hospitals at private, for-profit killing centres. Convention delegates also voted to eviscerate the current PC government's pro-parental rights Policy 713, which requires parental consent before transgender "pronouns" can be used to describe their children at school.

As further testament to the party's pro-abortion views, both of the previous Liberal Party leaders, Brian Gallant and Kevin Vickers, were aggressively pro-abortion. Gallant banned pro-lifers from running as Liberal candidates and repealed a requirement that hospital abortions required a sign-off by two doctors that the killing of the unborn child was "medically necessary". Both Gallant and Vickers strongly supported taxpayer funding of for profit, private abortuaries.

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Mariah Darling promotes the ideologies of the LGBT-Transgender movement and is not supportable. The Green Party also identifies her using made-up pronouns like "they/them." Rating is also based on Green Party policy which supports expanding taxpayer funding of abortions to private, for-profit killing centres like the notorious Clinic 554 abortuary in Fredericton. During the 2014 campaign trail, the Green Party leader also declared that the Green party, if elected to government, would immediately repeal the modicum of abortion restrictions that then existed in New Brunswick. Those restrictions, which have since been dismantled, had included a requirement that 2 doctors sign off on an abortion as being 'medically necessary' before it could be funded by taxpayers. Removing that restriction means the government agrees to fund all abortions, for any reason or no reason at all, even as a back-up birth control method.

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Adam Smith(Progressive Conservative) Shelley Craig(Libertarian) David Hickey(Liberal) Mariah Darling(Green)
CLC Rating Pro-life, pro-familyUnknownPro-abortion, anti-parental rights, pro-transgender ideologyPro-LGBT Ideology, pro-abortion
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1. Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)? Yes (based on constituent interview)no response----
2. Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? (note: a surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother but but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion. e.g. in cases of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer) No (based on constituent interview)no responseYes, all circumstances (based on party policy)Yes, all circumstances (based on party policy)
3. Will you uphold the current law of not funding abortion in private facilities? Yes (based on constituent interview)no responseNo (based on party policy)No (based on party policy)
4. Will you support measures to stop funding abortions with taxpayers money in all New Brunswick hospitals? Yes (based on constituent interview)no responseNo (based on party policy)No (based on party policy)
5. Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of the child in the womb and the alternatives to abortion? Yes (based on constituent interview)no response----
6. Will you protect the rights of parents to educate their children according to their faith in matters of moral principles and beliefs concerning abortion, contraception and homosexuality? Yes (based on constituent interview)no responseNo (based on party policy)No (based on party policy)
7. Will you oppose euthanasia and instead support measures to promote 'palliative care', the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life for terminally ill patients and those with disabilities? (Note: Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without that person's consent, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons.) --no response----
8. Will you support legislation to protect the right of health care workers who refuse to participate in procedures which are in violation of their religious or conscientious beliefs? --no response----

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Based on past-NDP Leader Dominic Cardy's declaration during the 2014 election campaign that all NDP MLAs must vote pro-abortion, even if it means violating their consciences and/or religious beliefs. To the best of our knowledge, this NDP policy has never been rescinded and is still in force. Under this anti-democratic edict, no NDP MLA would dare go against the Party's pro-abortion policy for fear of being thrown out of caucus, and no prospective candidate is allowed to run under the NDP banner unless they support abortion. Former NDP leader Cardy said at the time that, if elected Premier, his government would support funneling public tax dollars towards abortions committed at private, for-profit killing centres.

Kenneth Procter(NDP)
CLC Rating Pro-abortion, anti-parental rights
RATING COMMENTS: Based on past-NDP Leader Dominic Cardy's declaration duri...

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1. Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)? --
2. Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? (note: a surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother but but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion. e.g. in cases of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer) Yes, all circumstances (based on party policy)
3. Will you uphold the current law of not funding abortion in private facilities? No (based on party policy)
4. Will you support measures to stop funding abortions with taxpayers money in all New Brunswick hospitals? No (based on party policy)
5. Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of the child in the womb and the alternatives to abortion? --
6. Will you protect the rights of parents to educate their children according to their faith in matters of moral principles and beliefs concerning abortion, contraception and homosexuality? No (based on statement by party leader)
7. Will you oppose euthanasia and instead support measures to promote 'palliative care', the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life for terminally ill patients and those with disabilities? (Note: Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without that person's consent, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons.) --
8. Will you support legislation to protect the right of health care workers who refuse to participate in procedures which are in violation of their religious or conscientious beliefs? --
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