Report on the ECP Centre’s Burlington Family and Freedom conference
November 2, 2009
Report on the ECP Centre’s Burlington Family and Freedom conference
The ECP Centre’s 2009 Ignite Conference took place last weekend with a great line-up of speakers – and for the first time, we connected with Canadians across the country with a live feed of the conference over the internet.
We are looking forward to widening people’s access to the excellent talks from the conference by soon posting audio and video versions of the speeches on our NoApologies website. Stay tuned for more notices as we post these speeches in the days and weeks ahead.
Christian broadcaster Michael Coren and Canadian Constitution Foundation director John Carpay opened the conference on Friday evening. Mr. Coren talked about what it’s like to be a Christian broadcaster in Canada and Mr. Carpay discussed the work of his organization, which provides legal counsel to people fighting cases that are important for preserving fundamental freedoms in Canada.
On Saturday, Mary Mackert, formerly married to a polygamist man, shared her powerful testimony about the wretchedness of polygamy and her deliverance from it, as well as her salvation in Christ. She also talked about the nature of polygamy as it’s practiced by the Mormon sects in the U.S. and B.C. with which she is familiar: the rape, the pedophilia, the brainwashing that enslaves many of the women, and more.
John Carpay again addressed the conference, discussing the shift in Canada from negative rights to positive rights. Negative rights, such as a right to life, to liberty and to property, he noted, don’t take away from anyone else’s similar rights. Positive rights, however, such as a right to health care or to food or housing, etc., impose an obligation on others to provide those rights. The state has to enforce those obligations, so this socialistic philosophy of rights expands the size of the state and undermines individual liberty.
Charles McVety spoke about the erosion of Canada’s democratic tradition, and the primary dangerous role the judiciary has played in this process. He drew from research that he has collected recently for the development of a new documentary on the threat to Canada’s democtratic tradition. His documentary, produced by Word TV, which also produces his weekly television program, should be out shortly.
ECP Centre committee member Scott Van Dam gave a talk on how we are using modern communication technology and the internet to turn NoApologies into an internet-based social hub as well as a leading source of news and commentary in Canada. Our decision to live stream the conference illustrates this priority. And we are looking forward to rolling out some other new projects in the weeks ahead. Our decision to make the conference speeches available on our website instead of selling CDs and DVDs is also an example of how we are trying to use technology to be more efficient with our resources while increasing the benefit to you at the same time. Many people talked to Mr. Van Dam after his speech to learn more about the resources that are available today to maximize our reach to people who need to hear what we have to say about reformation in Canada.
We also greatly appreciated our workshop speakers. Dave Quist, director of the Institute for Marriage and Family talked about the importance solid research plays in getting politicians and the media to hear the pro-family message. He illustrated this point with some of the recent original work that the IMFC has done. Al Siebring, who’s spent 30 years as an editor and broadcaster in independant radio newsrooms across Canada, spoke on media bias and that the media defines itself as being intrinsically biased against conservative or “status quo” positions. The media sees itself as in the business of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” with the perspective that “cultural Christians” have been the comfortable for decades, while the “afflicted” or historically marginalized are the poor, homosexuals, Muslims, etc. Gisele Baribeau talked about the importance of understanding Christianity as a self-consistent comprehensive worldview, and communicating this perspective to our children. Mrs. Baribeau is a founder and director of CYWAL (Christian Youth Worldview and Leadership), a worldview training youth camp held every summer in Ontario. Stephanie Luck, of the Christian Legal Fellowship, provided an update on Christian liberty cases and trends in Canada as well as some of the things that concern CLF in Canada these days and how Christians need to respond.
We have still have books available from the conference. Great for CHRISTMAS GIFTS! You can order them online. We are seeing steady interest in “Tyranny of Nice,” Kathy Shaidle’s excellent summary of the human rights industry in Canada. With a substantial Introduction by Mark Steyn, this little book for only $10 makes an excellent concise summary of the real dangers human rights commissions pose to fundamental liberties in Canada.
We would also like to send you a copy of “Shakedown,” Ezra Levant’s book on human rights commission and his outrageous experience in Alberta.
Also available are “State vs. Church,” an apologetic on State-Church relations and Christian social theory as well as “No Sacred Ground,” which comes highly recommended by John Carpay as an excellent summary of the human rights commission mentality and the multi-faceted way that this mentality threatens your fundamental freedoms.
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For more information, you can reach NoApologies/ECP Centre at info@ecpcentre.com or at 613-496-0091.
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November 2, 2009
Report on the ECP Centre’s Burlington Family and Freedom conference
The ECP Centre’s 2009 Ignite Conference took place last weekend with a great line-up of speakers – and for the first time, we connected with Canadians across the country with a live feed of the conference over the internet.
We are looking forward to widening people’s access to the excellent talks from the conference by soon posting audio and video versions of the speeches on our NoApologies website. Stay tuned for more notices as we post these speeches in the days and weeks ahead.
Christian broadcaster Michael Coren and Canadian Constitution Foundation director John Carpay opened the conference on Friday evening. Mr. Coren talked about what it’s like to be a Christian broadcaster in Canada and Mr. Carpay discussed the work of his organization, which provides legal counsel to people fighting cases that are important for preserving fundamental freedoms in Canada.
On Saturday, Mary Mackert, formerly married to a polygamist man, shared her powerful testimony about the wretchedness of polygamy and her deliverance from it, as well as her salvation in Christ. She also talked about the nature of polygamy as it’s practiced by the Mormon sects in the U.S. and B.C. with which she is familiar: the rape, the pedophilia, the brainwashing that enslaves many of the women, and more.
John Carpay again addressed the conference, discussing the shift in Canada from negative rights to positive rights. Negative rights, such as a right to life, to liberty and to property, he noted, don’t take away from anyone else’s similar rights. Positive rights, however, such as a right to health care or to food or housing, etc., impose an obligation on others to provide those rights. The state has to enforce those obligations, so this socialistic philosophy of rights expands the size of the state and undermines individual liberty.
Charles McVety spoke about the erosion of Canada’s democratic tradition, and the primary dangerous role the judiciary has played in this process. He drew from research that he has collected recently for the development of a new documentary on the threat to Canada’s democtratic tradition. His documentary, produced by Word TV, which also produces his weekly television program, should be out shortly.
ECP Centre committee member Scott Van Dam gave a talk on how we are using modern communication technology and the internet to turn NoApologies into an internet-based social hub as well as a leading source of news and commentary in Canada. Our decision to live stream the conference illustrates this priority. And we are looking forward to rolling out some other new projects in the weeks ahead. Our decision to make the conference speeches available on our website instead of selling CDs and DVDs is also an example of how we are trying to use technology to be more efficient with our resources while increasing the benefit to you at the same time. Many people talked to Mr. Van Dam after his speech to learn more about the resources that are available today to maximize our reach to people who need to hear what we have to say about reformation in Canada.
We also greatly appreciated our workshop speakers. Dave Quist, director of the Institute for Marriage and Family talked about the importance solid research plays in getting politicians and the media to hear the pro-family message. He illustrated this point with some of the recent original work that the IMFC has done. Al Siebring, who’s spent 30 years as an editor and broadcaster in independant radio newsrooms across Canada, spoke on media bias and that the media defines itself as being intrinsically biased against conservative or “status quo” positions. The media sees itself as in the business of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” with the perspective that “cultural Christians” have been the comfortable for decades, while the “afflicted” or historically marginalized are the poor, homosexuals, Muslims, etc. Gisele Baribeau talked about the importance of understanding Christianity as a self-consistent comprehensive worldview, and communicating this perspective to our children. Mrs. Baribeau is a founder and director of CYWAL (Christian Youth Worldview and Leadership), a worldview training youth camp held every summer in Ontario. Stephanie Luck, of the Christian Legal Fellowship, provided an update on Christian liberty cases and trends in Canada as well as some of the things that concern CLF in Canada these days and how Christians need to respond.
We have still have books available from the conference. Great for CHRISTMAS GIFTS! You can order them online. We are seeing steady interest in “Tyranny of Nice,” Kathy Shaidle’s excellent summary of the human rights industry in Canada. With a substantial Introduction by Mark Steyn, this little book for only $10 makes an excellent concise summary of the real dangers human rights commissions pose to fundamental liberties in Canada.
We would also like to send you a copy of “Shakedown,” Ezra Levant’s book on human rights commission and his outrageous experience in Alberta.
Also available are “State vs. Church,” an apologetic on State-Church relations and Christian social theory as well as “No Sacred Ground,” which comes highly recommended by John Carpay as an excellent summary of the human rights commission mentality and the multi-faceted way that this mentality threatens your fundamental freedoms.
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For more information, you can reach NoApologies/ECP Centre at info@ecpcentre.com or at 613-496-0091. |
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