Canada Votes 2025: Fringe right-wing candidate joins Chilliwack-Hope election race
If you thought Maxime Bernier's PPC were radical right wingers, here comes the United Party of Canada
If you are a fan of a warming planet, Atwood-style dystopias, global conspiracy theories, and getting the Lord's Prayer back in schools, have I got a party for you.
There is a sixth candidate in the 2025 federal election in Chilliwack-Hope from a populist party you've never heard of and you probably will wish you never did.
The United Party of Canada (UCP) brings a refreshingly backwards set of policy positions that make Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada seem quaint.
The "UCP" is less of a party and more of a man. Grant Abraham seems to have a bit of a messiah complex claiming that Canada has been "deconstructed," way of life "rewritten before our eyes," and that there is a "darkness that is undermining Canadian families, our communities, and our national sovereignty."
Abraham describes himself as Alberta-born and B.C.-raised, a lawyer, author, humanitarian, organic farmer, and family man. He failed in a bid to be the Conservative leader in 2022, claiming his bid to participate was blocked by party officials even though he raised the necessary $300,000 and attained the nomination requirements from across the country.
Abraham believes that "Canada has lost its moorings from the value system that built this nation." He even wrote a book about it that he's hocking on the UCP website, which might actually be the point of the website, the party, the campaign.
"This is a wake-up call for the conservative right in Canada that reveals a paradigm shift for how to deal with the corrosive leftist agenda that is destroying our nation and ultimately asks the question that will unsettle every Harper 2.0 conservative in Canada: If the Liberals can deconstruct Canada with a minority government, imagine what the populists, the social conservatives, and the Christian right can do to reshape the political landscape?"
Here are just seven of Abraham's UCP policies that would trigger alarm bells if he wasn't a fringe nobody:
[*He doesn't say which "god" of the thousands, presumably his version of the evangelical Christian one.]
The UCP have 16 candidates listed among of the 343 electoral districts in Canada: 10 in Ontario, four in Alberta (including Abraham in Ponoka-Didsbury), one in Manitoba, and one in British Columbia, Chris Adam in Chilliwack-Hope.
The UCP website has no information about any of the candidates other than Abraham as of April 10. It's unclear who Adam is. According to public images on his Facebook profile, he likes fishing, might be good at it, and he visited (or just shared a photo of) the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France on Nov. 11, 2024.
The UCP website doesn't say who its candidates are, but it does have lots of information about Abraham and the party's policies.
Some other UCP policies of note:
• End income taxes for families with four or more children to incentivize large families.
• Make massive military investments.
• Deport all illegal immigrants.
• End birthright citizenship: require at least one parent of a child born in Canada to be a citizen or legal permanent resident to obtain Canadian citizenship.
• Fight the globalist forces.
• Drill the arctic.
• Outlaw Medical Assistance in Dying.
• Flee the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the World Health Organization.
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