Fri Oct 6, 2023 – 11:50 am EDT
(Campaign Life Coalition) — Manitoba’s provincial election took place October 3 and the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP), led by Wab Kinew, won a majority government, taking 34 seats out of 57 (unofficial results), and deposed the Progressive Conservatives who had ruled since 2016.
We are fearful of what harm this far-left socialist government might do on issues relating to life, family, faith and freedom.
As a student of history, I understand that all socialist and Marxist governments end up enacting policies that are hostile to Christianity, to the moral underpinnings of Judeo-Christian civilization, and restricting democratic freedoms.
This worry is only exacerbated by the fact that the NDP’s election campaign website included a paraphrased quote from Karl Marx on its Statement of Principles page.
Marx, the father of atheistic communism, famously wrote: “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
It’s disturbing that a Canadian political party would draw inspiration from communism, a philosophy which produced the enslavement of half of Europe for 70 years under the Soviet dictatorship, the murder and genocide of between 70 to 120 million people in the last century alone,
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