Quebec Life Coalition

Quebec Life Coalition (French: Campagne Québec-Vie, CQV) is a Quebec-based pro-life advocacy organization founded in 1989. It is the Quebec division of Campaign Life Coalition, a pan-Canadian pro-life group. The organization opposes abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and human cloning, and also opposes same-sex marriage. It describes its mission as upholding "the inviolability of human life." The group is closely associated with conservative Catholic circles and organizes the annual National March for Life in Ottawa, which draws participation from much of the Canadian episcopate. Its current president and spokesperson is Georges Buscemi, who has led the organization since September 2009. The organization has four full-time employees. It engages in lobbying, campus outreach, and political activism, and has been involved in numerous controversies, particularly around statements by its leadership on homosexuality and Pope Francis.

Quebec Life Coalition (Campagne Québec-Vie) was founded in 1989 as a Quebec-based pro-life association. It is a division of Campaign Life Coalition, a pan-Canadian pro-life organization. The founding member was Gilles Grondin (1926–2004). The organization advocates for the "inviolability of human life," opposing abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and human cloning, as well as same-sex marriage. It acts as a conservative pressure group, targeting students through publications distributed on university campuses, as well as younger audiences in CEGEPs and high schools, and also aims at the political sphere. From 2002 to 2009, Luc Gagnon served as president. In 2009, Luc Gagnon founded "Quebec Life Coalition" as the English-speaking division of the association. Since September 2009, Georges Buscemi has been the spokesperson and president. The organization has four full-time employees. It organizes the annual National March for Life in Ottawa, which is attended by a large part of the Canadian episcopate. The group participates in local demonstrations near Quebec clinics that perform abortions, stating it does not condone violence against clinic staff, though clinic staff report being harassed and intimidated. In 2014, the organization took part in pro-life protests against government funding of abortion in Quebec. In March 2019, it attempted to invalidate a legal provision prohibiting demonstrations within 50 meters of an abortion clinic. In July 2019, it launched a petition to support the screening of the pro-life film Unplanned and to convince Vincent Guzzo, owner of the Guzzo cinema chain, to show the film more widely. The organization has been involved in several controversies: in 2005, its congress was met with a protest by a collective called "Avortons leur congrès"; in September 2017, Georges Buscemi made remarks on homosexuality that were criticized; in April 2019, the president signed an open letter against Pope Francis, accusing him of heresy, which led some Quebec bishops to withdraw support from the National March for Life.

• 2019

  Attempts to invalidate a legal provision prohibiting demonstrations within 50 meters of an abortion clinic; launches petition supporting the film Unplanned.

• 2014

  Participates in pro-life protests against Quebec government funding of abortion.

• 2009

  Luc Gagnon founds 'Quebec Life Coalition' as the English-speaking division; Georges Buscemi becomes president and spokesperson in September.

• 2002

  Luc Gagnon becomes president (until 2009).

• 1989

  Quebec Life Coalition (Campagne Québec-Vie) founded.

Conservative pro-life advocacy group targeting students and the political sphere.

1. 1Campagne Québec-Vie - Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org
2. 2Quebec Life Coalition - Wikidatawikidata.org