What is Campaign Life Coalition?

Campaign Life Coalition is the political wing of the pro-life movement in Canada. We are working to restore the right to life, from conception to natural death, at all levels of government - federal, provincial, and municipal. We support any legislative measure to end anti-life practices, either directly or indirectly, on the condition such a measure does not compromise our basic pro-life beliefs. We defend the sanctity of human life against threats posed by abortion, euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide, reproductive and genetic technologies, cloning, infanticide, eugenics, population control, and threats to the family.

How are we organized?

We are a grassroots movement. We come from all walks of life and different faiths; and each of us contributes spiritual support, financial assistance, or political activism, according to our individual strengths, and the needs of the movement. We have local and provincial offices across the country, a national office in Toronto, and a special federal lobby office in Ottawa.

What do we do?

We support all pro-life initiatives designed to change public opinion in favour of life. We educate on political issues of pro-life concern by means of our monthly newsletter and our website; pamphlets, books, videos, press releases, letters-to-the-editor, and media interviews; and conferences and speaking engagements.

• We support crisis pregnancy centres which provide help to pregnant women.
• We support pro-life actions such as Life Chain, pickets and demonstrations.
• We specialize in political activity. We help identify, form, and support
• pro-life political leaders in all parties.
• We work with pro-lifers in all parties to achieve pro-life party platforms. (We strongly support those parties which already have pro-life platforms; but we do not support one party exclusively. This position is based on consensus within the pro-life movement.)
• We meet regularly with all politicians, at their legislative and constituency offices. We support those who are pro-life, and try to educate and persuade those who are not.
• We initiate and/or support the introduction of pro-life legislative measures, and take part in debate on specific pieces of proposed legislation.
• We monitor how the right to life is treated in the courts. We also intervene in specific cases involving the right to life.
• We help represent the Canadian pro-life movement at international conferences involving life issues. We do this in order to monitor and influence Canada's handling of such issues on the international level.
• We network and co-operate with pro-life organizations representing the educational and charitable wings of the movement, and seek to maintain and promote unity in the pro-life movement as a whole (The pro-life battle must be fought on several fronts). We also seek to network and co-operate with like-minded organizations dealing with issues related to our primary concerns. ...and during elections
• We encourage competent pro-lifers to run for office at all levels of government.
• We question election candidates, and research their public records, to ascertain their positions on the life issues. We publish the results of this research, and seek to mobilize the pro-life vote.
• We encourage active support for pro-life candidates via leafleting, canvassing, phoning, donations and joining campaign teams