Campaign Life Coalition


The Campaign Life Coalition is a Canadian political lobbyist organization founded in 1978. Based in Toronto, the organization advocates for socially conservative values. It opposes abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, assisted reproductive technologies, same-sex marriage, and gender identity legislation.

Ontario politics

At the provincial level in Ontario, Campaign Life helped to establish and initially supported the Family Coalition Party. Following the FCP's name change to the New Reform Party of Ontario and the election of Patrick Brown as the new leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in 2015, the CLC seemingly switched support to the Ontario PCs. The CLC endorsed Brown's bid for the leadership, along with other social conservative leadership candidate Monte McNaughton, and released a statement congratulating Brown on his victory. The group later became critical of Brown after he publicly announced that he would not repeal the new provincial sex education curriculum changes if he becomes premier.

Federal politics

Campaign Life endorsed candidates Brad Trost and Pierre Lemieux in the 2017 Conservative leadership election. Trost came 4th with 8.35%, and Lemieux came 7th with 7.38%.
Campaign Life endorsed Derek Sloan as candidate in the 2020 Conservative leadership election.

LifeSiteNews

Campaign Life Coalition founded LifeSiteNews in 1997. The website was founded with the intent to promote anti-abortion views.
According to Snopes, LifeSiteNews is "a known purveyor of misleading information." The Associated Press described the website as "ultraconservative." In May 2019, Philip Pullela, in a Reuters article, wrote that the website "often is a platform for attacks on ." The LGBT magazine The Advocate has described LifeSiteNews as an anti-LGBT outlet, and criticised it for articles blaming clerical sex abuse, including that of children, on homosexuality. Research has shown no evidence that sexual orientation affects the likelihood of a person's abusing children.
A Catholic priest, Raymond Gravel, filed a lawsuit in Quebec against the website in 2011 for defamation. Subsequently, Gravel died of lung cancer on August 11, 2014. In 2013, the lawsuit was allowed to advance to trial by a Quebec court.

Archives

There is a Campaign Life Coalition fond at Library and Archives Canada. The archival reference number is R5937. The fond covers the date ranges 1967 to 1998 and consists of 1.8 meters of textual records.