The Motivator, CHP Guelph-Wellington Riding Association Newsletter, Issue 4, August 1999

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The Motivator

- The Guelph-Wellington Federal Riding Association Newsletter

Phone: (519) 824-4642; Fax: (519) 767-6647; e-mail: gordt@golden.net
Issue 4 - August 1, 1999

+++ Circulation 480 households +++

Purpose: The Christian Heritage Party seeks to maintain our Christian heritage in Canada and promote it in public life as a national party. The CHP policies are founded on Christian principles as guides in public life for the benefit of Canada. Rational and true principles are solid foundations upon which our country can be built. We seek to motivate all interested residents into taking personal responsibility for moral, logical and just government for Canada. We want to be especially vigilant for those who have no voice in politics.

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Table of Contents

Pages 2 to 4  Ron Gray, National Leader
Page 4        Peter Ellis, President of Ontario Council
Page 5        Gord Truscott, Guelph-Wellington Riding Association President
Page 6        Hank Metzlar, Guelph-Wellington Riding Association Treasurer 
Following     Communiqués from Ron Gray and Contributors to the CHP

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Ron Gray, National Leader of the Christian Heritage Party
Interviewed by Brian Johnston of Impact Guelph Friday, July 2, 1999

Brian: Ron, when did you get involved with the party? How long has it been?

Ron: I was a candidate for the CHP in British Columbia in the 1988 election. I did not run in the 1993 election. My father and my stepmother were both dying and we brought them home from California to live with us. We were simply busy taking care of them. I became the leader of the party in November of 1995 at the convention that was held in London. I took office January 1st 1996. We moved from British Columbia to Quebec in the summer of 1997. I realized that: as the leader of a national party, it was essential that I become bilingual and also have a comprehension of the culture of Quebec.

Brian: So then, since 1995 you've been full-time in the political arena?

Ron: I'm fond of saying its a half time job. I can work any 12 hours a day that I like.

Brian: What got you involved in the political system?

Ron: I've always been interested in politics. As a journalist, it was my favorite indoor sport. But I never thought of getting directly involved until some people in Chiliwack, B.C. asked me to be their candidate. They asked three times and I only said no twice.

Brian: What would you say is the greatest challenge of being the Leader of the Christian Heritage Party?

Ron: I would think that the greatest challenge we face is a misunderstanding among Christians of what we are seeking to do. Not much of our news gets out in the secular media. The media is getting better. We are beginning to break through their preconceptions. Still it is a barrier and because they don't carry the news and most Christians get their news from secular media, there is a misunderstanding about us.

For example there are people who think that our goal is to be Ayatollahs and convert the nation at the point of a sword. Of course that is no part of our work, In fact, converting our nation is not our work, it is the work of the church. I feel very strongly that both civil government and the church are both ordained of God and they are distinct spheres, but they are complementary. The work of the civil government is to maintain peace and order, an environment in which the church is able to do its work. So that is the relationship between civil government and church. The relationship between church and civil government; I think it is clear that God never intended the church to wield the coercive powers of government, to bear the sword. But the church does have a responsibility to be the conscience of the

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(continued from page 2) nation, to speak into government, because the church has been given the mind of Christ. The people of God understand what the scriptures mean and how they define good and evil, right and wrong, just and unjust. The church has that responsibility to speak into civil government.

The misunderstanding of that and the idea that we may have an ulterior motive, to try and force something on an unwilling public is held by a number of Christians. So ! find that our biggest challenge is to overcome that. Christians who suspect that, quite rightly, don't want to work with that kind of agenda. I wouldn't want to work with that agenda either. So our purpose is to show Christians that the real leader of this party said that if you want to be a leader, you must be the servant of all That means those who don't agree with you as well. Our purpose is to govern. We seek to govern this nation. But in doing so to serve all of the people, those who agree with us and those who don't.

The other primary goal that we have is to ensure that Christians in Canada will be able to look into the political process and see their values and their principles represented there. We want to ensure that they have an option. It would be as a matter of their democratic choice whether they support or not. But if no one is there ....

For example, we are the only party in Canada who actually literally believes the two principles contained in the preamble to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It says that Canada was established upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. We believe that. Canadians who believe these two principles have a right to have someone who will represent them, if they choose. We are determined to be that representative.

To me the supremacy of God means heeding His decisions, His ideas in what is right and what is wrong, what is just and unjust ought to be at the core of how the nation is governed. To me that means that any law that has been passed, any court judgment that has been administered that ignores His standards is unconstitutional, if supremacy means anything at all.

So for example in the M vs. H decision, that says that spouse can mean people of the same sex living in a conjugal relationship and especially the import of that decision which orders the elected legislatures to change their laws is unconstitutional. That is wrong.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia decision that says you have a right to possess child pornography. That is simply unconstitutional because it neglects the standards that are at the foundation of the nation. I'm not saying that this nation was ever at some golden era a Christian nation.

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The truth is that people who put Canada together did acknowledge a standard of right and wrong from a transcendent source. The very democratic government that we try to work within actually has its roots in 1215 A.D. in Runnymede when the king signed the Magna Carta which acknowledged that there is a higher law to which even the crown must be subject. That law comes out of the word of God. We hope to restore that.

Peter Ellis, President of the Ontario Council of the Christian Heritage Party

Dominion Day 1999 saw a visit to our home by Christian Heritage party Leader Ron Gray and his wife Janet. In the afternoon as 25 Riding Presidents and spouses came from far and wide to a Strawberry Social. An evening meeting of 25 local members and friends also came to hear Ron Gray. This (dv) will lead to the development of a Riding Association in Waterloo-Wellington.

Before our National Leader spoke to the presidents, we sang lustily our royal and national anthems. Yours truly proposed a toast to the Queen and Canada. As I have thought about "O Canada" since then, two lines have impressed me strongly. The first, "We stand on guard for thee" involves the Christian's political work. The second, "God keep our !and glorious and free"expresses what must be his constant prayer.

Part of the Christian's calling while on this earth is to a political witness, to stand on guard in his nation for righteousness sake. Our standing on guard is ever an active duty, not a passive option. The vision and work of the CHP calls for our enthusiastic and joyful commitment. Over the next two years our focus must be on reaching fellow Christians with the challenge of CHP membership and financial support as we prepare for the next federal election.

Hand in hand with our work goes our prayer, "God keep our land glorious and free." Our trust is in the sovereign Lord God who has commissioned us to our political work. We must pray daily in our private as well as our family prayers that our great God will preserve and increase in this Dominion the blessings of freedom and peace; that more and more the Lord Jesus shall reign in the public life of Canada so that this land shall indeed be a glorious land!

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Gord Truscott, President of the Guelph-Wellington Riding Association

Just after a talk or sermon, people retain an average of 50% of what they heard. That declines to 25% the next morning and continues to diminish thereafter. I heard two sermons today, but would straggle to deliver the major points tomorrow. Similarly in politics, we need to rehearse our responses to the various social and political debates of this age. 1 Peter 3:10 - 17 constrains us from living in isolation.

The United Nations has recently identified Canada as the best country in the world in which to live. If we have a failing, it is the treatment of our poor. Many hide behind this dubious distinction as a way to avoid political and social involvement.

Our federal debt was great from the Second World War. By about 1958 we managed to pay it off. Consider the freedom which arises from being debt-free. All Canadians at some point in their lifetime should be debt-free. This is no longer likely for Canada as we have been living far beyond our means. We have supported and continue to support suspicious causes. Look at the recent discovery of millions of dollars being invested in Jean Chretien's riding. We see a need for fairness and sound moral judgment.

Our national debt of 650 billion dollars would require a payment of roughly $20,000 from each man, woman and child in Canada. Those who wish to pay their share should contact Revenue Canada. From 1958 and especially during the Trudeau years, the federal debt climbed to huge proportions. We can only imagine how much diversion of funds was necessary to achieve our present level of monetary enslavement.

Funding for causes which oppose Biblical scriptures, the teachings of Jesus and long term common sense are still entrenched in opposition to Family values. The traditional family created and blessed by God is increasingly being eroded by people who do not comprehend what true family means. In the National Post of Saturday May 22, 1999, David From made the following statement. "The shift from marriage to a regime of easy divorce and cohabitation has meant that fewer than half the Canadian children born this year will reach the age of 18 with both their father and mother continuously present in their home. These children are between 200% and 300% more likely to grow up poor than their married counterparts. They are more likely to get into trouble with the law, to drop out of school, to use illegal drugs, and to be single parents themselves."

Better one step made in sincerity of conscience than to be lead by a minority seeking to fulfill their own interests.

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CHRISTIAN HERITAGE PARTY OF CANADA
PARTI DE L'HERITAGE CHRETIEN DU CANADA

The Guelph-Wellington Federal Riding Association

Pres: 41 Huron St., Guelph N1E 5L3
Treas: R.R.#7, Guelph N1H 6J4

Dear C.H.P. friends,

The resolution of the Twp of Front of Leeds and Landsdowne to reinstate Bible reading and prayers in Canadian schools, apparently sent to all municipalities, has caused a lot of commotion and stirred many pens into action. Many people were and are in favour although I sometimes doubt the motives, many also are against it for all kinds of reasons.

If it were not so serious it would have been hilarious to see and read all the adjectives used to accuse the Christians. The father of lies must have had a heyday. "The pot calls the kettle black" came to my mind, but this was worse.

Christians were accused of everything the opposers were and are guilty of themselves. Brainwashing, intolerance, bible thumpers, moving forward to the medieval age, all the things the devil's disciples have been using for ages.

I don't like most of the arguments the "pros" used either but I will refrain from criticizing them at this time. Perhaps next month.

Yours faithfully,

H. Metzlar

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