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"God's law is clear: standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school."

- Stockwell Day, the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs critic, in Alberta Report magazine, 1984.

 

"In 1984, Mr. Day told me that people who did not choose Jesus Christ, 'will not be in Christ's presence for eternity. You can call that Hell.'"

- Bob Friedland, talking about his interview with Stockwell Day, the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs critic, in 1984, quoted in the Globe and Mail, October 9th 2000.

 

"I want to know how many women in Alberta are physically battered and not just insulted by their husbands... If we talk insulted by their husbands, then I'm afraid that I'm guilty from time to time of abusing my wife."

- Stockwell Day, 1987, disputing a poll indicating one million women had been abused physically, emotionally, sexually or economically.

 

"...an offence to the Lord."

- Conservative Foreign Affairs critic Stockwell Day in 1986, when leaders of gay groups were introduced to the Alberta Legislature, as quoted in the Calgary Herald.

 

"I would expect the support of the party no matter what happens... even if I were to kill my grandmother with an axe."

- Then-Alliance leader Stockwell Day, according to various MPs, June 2001.

 

"Most Canadians profess to be of the Christian faith and I think we need to be sensitive to the fact it bothers Christians when the name of Jesus Christ is used in a blasphemous way."

- Conservative Foreign Affairs critic Stockwell Day on the need to ban or censor Of Mice and Men in public schools, Red Deer Advocate, March 24, 1994. This happened in the middle of national Freedom to Read Week.

 

"Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling."

- Stockwell Day, February of 1992, quoted in Alberta Report.

 

"Women who become pregnant through rape or incest should not qualify for government-funded abortions unless their pregnancy is life-threatening."

- Stockwell Day, 1995, at an Alberta Conservative party convention.

 

"Stories are one thing. Facts are another. I'm so tired of dealing with a few scant, fabricated stories. [Discrimination against homosexuals] just is not happening."

- Stockwell Day in the Red Deer Advocate, May 11, 1996.

 

"We all make mistakes and they made a mistake in pursuing a project which purports to reflect the sexual choices of one per cent of the population."

- Stockwell Day, 1997, fighting a $10,000 lotteries grant to study the lives and history of gays in Alberta. Most statistics suggest that four to 10 per cent of the general population is homosexual.

 

"As a Christian, I acknowledge the lordship of Jesus Christ over the whole universe ... I believe that the Bible is the infallible word of God and every word in it, cover to cover, is true."

- Stockwell Day, 1998.

 

"Goddard must also believe it is fine for a teacher to possess child porn."

- Stockwell Day in 1999, attacking Red Deer lawyer and school trustee Lorne Goddard for defending a pedophile in a child pornography case. Goddard sued Day for slander.

 

"People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'"

- Stockwell Day on why serial child-murderer Clifford Olson should serve his life sentence in the general prison population.

 

"Homosexuality is a choice, in my view."

- Stockwell Day on a Vancouver radio talk show, July 2000.

 

"I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said, look I am a democrat. [But] on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn’t be able to do that."

- Stockwell Day, indicating that even if a majority of his constituents wanted him to vote pro-choice, he would not be able so. Ottawa Citizen.

 

"Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime."

- Stockwell Day, at an anti-gun control talk in Ontario's cottage country, 2000.

 

"Mr. Day is a past master of reducing complex arguments to bill boards... I'm not sure if he's running for Prime Minister or game show host."

- Joe Clark on Stockwell Day during the 2000 leaders debate.

 

"There was no meeting in which I was involved at all... No money was ever given. No contract was ever signed.... I mistakenly assumed that the individual in question may have been one of the many people that our members of Parliament introduce me to on a daily basis... However, after talking with [Alliance MPs Darrell Stinson and Myron Thompson], and my staff, and consulting my schedule, I can confirm that I was not introduced to him and have never met this person.... Contrary to the Globe story, there was never any suggestion that this individual would investigate the prime minister or his Shawinigan business dealings..."

- Stockwell Day, denying a report in the Globe and Mail that he had met with a private investigator who would have been hired to dig up dirt on the Liberals, April 8th, 2001. The Globe and Mail stood by the story.

 

"How can anybody when their track record has been completely contrary to a building exercise, driving people apart, driving wedges, have any credibility or be believable that he can bring people together?""

- Conservative MP Peter MacKay reacting to Stockwell Day's proposal to merge the Conservative and Alliance Parties, June 14th, 2001.

 

"I paraded [protested] with Day and his people in front of a school in Red Deer against sex education."

- Jim Green, supporter of anti-Semitic teacher Jim Keegstra, quoted in Briarpatch Magazine, July/August 2000.

 

"In the past day or so, we have learned that Stockwell Day apparently believes that the world is 6,000 years old, Adam and Eve were real people and - my personal favourite - humans walked the earth with dinosaurs. I just want to remind Mr. Day that The Flintstones was not a documentary. And this is the only dinosaur that recently co-existed with humans. [Holds up stuffed Barney dinosaur]"

- Liberal activist Warren Kinsella on CTV's Canada AM, 2000.

 

"Just as Lake Erie drains from north to south, there is an ongoing drain in terms of our young people but hardworking people -- entrepreneurs, job creators, research people -- who continue to move foward..."

- Stockwell Day trying to create an analogy between the flow of Lake Erie from "north to south" and the brain drain from Canada to the US, October 24, 2000. In fact, the river drains from south to north.

 

"We are on a mission to save Canada... Stockwell Day has proven himself a man who will not recant his beliefs even under the most extreme pressure. "

- Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant in the Toronto Star, February 16th 2002.