Candidate, Ivan Pak
People's Party of Canada Party | Richmond Centre, BC
CLC rating: Evaluation pending
Light Rating
Rating Comments: This individual was the PPC candidate in the 2019 federal election. Ivan's rating is being re-evaluated on the basis of conflicting positions that he purported to hold on the right to life, at different times in this election campaign.
On June 28, 2019 Ivan gave perfect answers to CLC's 2019 federal election questionnaire. On the basis of those answers, we rated him pro-life.
However, in a video interview posted September 11, 2019 Pak presented a stance in contradiction to his perfect survey responses. In the youtube video, he stated "I’m not a person who wants to take away the choices of women, they have the choice..". In the same video, he describes the pro-life position of criminalizing all abortion-killings as "one extreme", the pro-choice position of no abortion restrictions whatsoever as another "extreme", and says that he believes society should be "in the middle" of those two extremes.
Sadly, this is not a fully pro-life position. In fact, it is largely a pro-abortion position which holds that it should be legal to kill children in the womb depending on their size and level of development.
On June 28, 2019 Ivan gave perfect answers to CLC's 2019 federal election questionnaire. On the basis of those answers, we rated him pro-life.
However, in a video interview posted September 11, 2019 Pak presented a stance in contradiction to his perfect survey responses. In the youtube video, he stated "I’m not a person who wants to take away the choices of women, they have the choice..". In the same video, he describes the pro-life position of criminalizing all abortion-killings as "one extreme", the pro-choice position of no abortion restrictions whatsoever as another "extreme", and says that he believes society should be "in the middle" of those two extremes.
Sadly, this is not a fully pro-life position. In fact, it is largely a pro-abortion position which holds that it should be legal to kill children in the womb depending on their size and level of development.
Percentage in last election: 1.39% (2019)
Victory margin last election: -47.65% (2019)
Religion / Faith: Christian
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Here is Ivan Pak's voting record relating to life and family issues:
| Votes, Surveys and Policy Decision | Vote | Score |
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There are no quotes for Ivan Pak at this time.
Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Ivan Pak on June 28, 2019.
| Question | Response |
|---|---|
| Do you believe that life begins at conception (fertilization)? | Yes |
| Do you support the conscience rights of health care professionals to refuse to do or refer for medical procedures which they oppose? | Yes |
| If elected, would you vote in favour of a law to protect all unborn children from the time of conception (fertilization) onward? | Yes |
| If elected, will you vote to pass laws protecting people from euthanasia and assisted-suicide, and vote to reject laws that would expand euthanasia and assisted-suicide? | Yes |
| Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? (note: Medical treatments to save the life of a mother and which result in the UNINTENDED death of her unborn child, are NOT abortions. Eg. in case of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer) | No |
Here are the videos available for Ivan Pak.
Video #1 - On abortion and transgender ideology bill C-16
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In this video, Ivan says he would not take away a woman's so-called "choice" to kill children via abortion. He also states that he does not support criminalizing all abortion-killings.
Ivan also mentions that he would support repealing Trudeau's transgender ideology bill, number C-16, which creates a counterfeit right to "gender identity" and "gender expression".