OTTAWA—As thousands of people gathered on Parliament Hill for the 29th annual March for Life rally to push for an end to abortion and euthanasia, Conservative MP Arnold Viersen called for participants to “choose life.”
“We stand here today in proud solidarity with our fellow citizens who are rallying across this country, calling for a renewed commitment to uphold the dignity of human life, from conception to natural death. We roundly reject this culture of death,” Viersen said to the audience alongside two of his children on May 14.
Viersen expressed hope that Conservative MP Tamara Jansen’s Bill C-218, which would exclude all mental disorders from eligibility for euthanasia, would pass in the House of Commons. He also called for the passage of Bill C-260, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis’s private bill that would prohibit government bureaucrats from proactively suggesting medical assistance in dying (MAID) to individuals….