Hey Jenn,
Just wanted to see how you were, I don't think I've ever sent you an email.Not to gloat about the small conservative triumph, and I don't even know how interesting you find politics (its usually really boring) I'd like to send you something from Pope John Paul encyclical Centensimus Annus
Those who are convinced that they know the truth and firmly adhere to it are considered unreliable from a democratic point of view, since they do not accept that truth is determined by the majority, or that it is subject to variation according to different political trends. It must be observed in this regard that if there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power. As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

So you see a society who beliefs are rooted in a correct understanding of the human person, that is, men and women have within them the law of nature and human nature's dignity and with these two qualities comes responsibility and freedom. responsibility to the moral law within us and the freedom stems from our shared and equal diginity that no man is the ruler of another.Our freedom and responsibilty are therefore manifested most highly in the gift of oneself to another, to our fellow human beings and above all to God, whom theologians call "the Wholly Other".
Now the conservatives in Canada do not perfectly understand or defend this vision in their official platform but there are strong dynamic elements within the party which beleive in this philosophy of the person and these men and women are the parlimentarians who will make the difference in the struggle against the culter of death in Canada.
Just some rambling thought of dubious importance but there they are.
Pax Christi
Eric