The Christian Heritage Party heard from party Executive Director Vicki Gunn last Friday as she spoke at their AGM in Smithers.
Gunn also spent some time at the Bulkley Valley Christian School speaking to students.
Gunn came to introduce the local membership to the party’s new immigration policy. Under their proposal, they want to see immigration to Canada from Sharia Law based countries halted.
Gunn said the new platform is designed to put an end to cultural conflict before it can escalate to levels that have been seen in Europe.
“Basically what I’m going to be doing is explaining the clash of world views that’s happening big time in Europe but is starting here also and will increase unless we get perspective on it and give ourselves time to think and sort it out and give them time to change their world views so that they’re accepting of the same freedoms in Canada that we’re used to,” said Gunn.
She’s hopeful world views can change to provide more equality, and said that she thinks things are already on the right path in places like Afghanistan where girls are going to school now.
The moratorium on immigration from Sharia countries would also preserve Canadian way of life, she said.
“Once it starts to proliferate then you end up with it becoming the dominant world view, and we don’t want that.”
Louis Kwantes, CHP’s national treasurer, elaborated that he believes immigrants from Muslim countries don’t integrate in the way immigrants back in the 1940s and ‘50s did.
“If you look at some of these countries where there’s a lot of Muslim folks moving in, they’ve closed themselves off. They don’t assimilate in the same way, and that’s where the different world view comes in.”
Rod Taylor, the party’s deputy leader and local riding candidate, said there are already sporadic incidents in Canada from Sharia-law, such as honour killings and cases of polygamy.
But he said that the country would still be open for refugees.
“We would still have the door open for refugees, in terms of compassion,” he said. “But not for mass immigration.”
He added, “We need to draw the line now to protect and culture or society from intentional destructive influences.”