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Side-by-Side Candidate Comparison in the Riding of Kitchener-Conestoga

			incumbent
	Jim Karahalios(New Blue)	Elisabeth Perrin Snyder(Ontario)	Mike Harris, Jr.(Progressive Conservative)	Melanie Van Alphen(Liberal)

CLC Rating	Pro-life, pro-family	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

RATING COMMENTS:	Jim is well-known to CLC as a solid prolifer. <More> See Full Profile	CLC's 2022 Ontario provincial election questionnaire not ... <More> See Full Profile	No response to 2022 Ontario election survey, so position ... <More> See Full Profile	During the 2014 Ontario municipal election cycle, Ms. Van... <More> See Full Profile
SURVEY QUESTION	ANSWER	ANSWER	ANSWER	ANSWER
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1. Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)?	--	survey not yet sent	No response	survey not yet sent
2. Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? If yes, please explain. *A surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother (e.g. In the case of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer) but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion.	--	survey not yet sent	No response	survey not yet sent
3. Would you support measures to delist medically unnecessary, elective abortions from the list of insured services covered by OHIP?	--	survey not yet sent	No response	survey not yet sent
4. Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of their child in the womb, and the alternatives to abortion?	--	survey not yet sent	No response	survey not yet sent
5. Would you vote in favor of repealing the Ontario "bubble zone" censorship law? This unconstitutional law criminalizes peaceful pro-life expression, including silent prayer, on taxpayer-owned public sidewalks within 50 metres (or more) of any abortion facility.	--	survey not yet sent	No response	survey not yet sent
6. Will you protect parental rights in education by working to ensure that traditionally principled parents are given advance notice of, and the ability to withdraw their children from, classroom lessons and presentations dealing with abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and transgenderism?	--	survey not yet sent	No response
7. Would you support efforts to repeal the age-inappropriate, graphic, sex-ed curriculum which is currently being taught throughout Ontario schools?	--	survey not yet sent	No response	survey not yet sent
8. If elected, will you vote to reject laws that would expand euthanasia and assisted-suicide and instead, promote palliative care, the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life until natural death for terminally ill patients, and for those with disabilities? *Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without the consent of that person, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons.	--	survey not yet sent	No response	survey not yet sent
9. 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?	--	survey not yet sent

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	Karen Meissner(New Democrat)

CLC Rating	Pro-abortion, pro-LGBT ideology

RATING COMMENTS:	Official NDP policy is pro-abortion. In addition, the NDP... <More> See Full Profile
SURVEY QUESTION	ANSWER
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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? If yes, please explain. *A surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother (e.g. In the case of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer) but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion.	Yes, all circumstances (per party policy)
3. Would you support measures to delist medically unnecessary, elective abortions from the list of insured services covered by OHIP?	No (per party policy)
4. Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of their child in the womb, and the alternatives to abortion?	--
5. Would you vote in favor of repealing the Ontario "bubble zone" censorship law? This unconstitutional law criminalizes peaceful pro-life expression, including silent prayer, on taxpayer-owned public sidewalks within 50 metres (or more) of any abortion facility.	--
6. Will you protect parental rights in education by working to ensure that traditionally principled parents are given advance notice of, and the ability to withdraw their children from, classroom lessons and presentations dealing with abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and transgenderism?
7. Would you support efforts to repeal the age-inappropriate, graphic, sex-ed curriculum which is currently being taught throughout Ontario schools?	--
8. If elected, will you vote to reject laws that would expand euthanasia and assisted-suicide and instead, promote palliative care, the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life until natural death for terminally ill patients, and for those with disabilities? *Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without the consent of that person, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons.	--
9. 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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