Conservative convention #6 - Resolutions

Globe and Mail has the coverage: For

• the traditional definition of marriage (74-26)
• Two-tier health care
• elect Supreme Court judges in the House of Commons.
• eliminating all defences for the possession of child pornography
• raising the age of consent to 16
• review the Kyoto accord
• return to the table on missile defence
• repeal the gun-registry

Against

• passing any laws restricting abortion (55-45)
• the right to recall a members of Parliament if a constituency wants to

The two tier health care vote is interesting - that should be a major issue in the next election, which according to John Reynolds yesterday could be any time after Christmas. I would have liked to see the party adopt a publically funded, privately delivered approach, but I'm ok with this too, and so, I bet, are a majority of Canadians, who realize that the current system needs more than tinkering.

Raising the age of consent is extermely overdue.

The only resolution that really upsets me is the abortion one - and I think it could hurt the party. The delegates didn't even get a chance to vote on a subsequent proposal that would have banned all third trimester partial birth abortions; I bet a majority of Canadians would support that - it's a reasonable compromise at this point in our history. I guess they want to take the issue away from the liberals in the next election, and it's not really a change in policy; Harper repeatedly said that during the last campaign. Update: follow some reaction here.

Still, it would be nice to have one party that said third trimester abortions are immoral.