The Objectives of the Canadian
(a) The advocating, fostering and safe-guarding of social rights and justice.
(b) The advocating, fostering and protection of traditional family values.
(c) The safe-guarding of parental rights with respect to education and up-bringing of their children.
(d) The advocating, fostering and safe-guarding of constitutional, common law and civic rights and responsibilities of individuals both as citizens and as parents.
(e) The advocating, fostering and establishment of traditional schools, social and educational institutions for the preservation of traditional values.
(f) The advocating, fostering and safe-guarding of citizen’s right and entitlement to clean, just and upright government.
A Brief History of the Canadian
The Canadian Alliance for Social justice and Family Values Association (CASJAFVA) was founded on October 1, 1997. CASJAFVA was brought into existence with the aim to awaken the silent majority and to organize a united voice to deal with governments. CASJAFVA has been and is against detrimental policies and actions on the part of governments and special interest groups. These wrongful policies and actions include the infringement of parental rights in bringing up and educating their children, the destruction of traditional family values, misinformation, the promotion and the fostering of unhealthy life styles and social environment for the younger generation, and oppressive legislation and governmental policies.
Some of the more important works done by CASJAFVA in the past ten years for your information
1. In order to protect and preserve stability of our community, CASJAFVA had repeatedly written and attended the Burnaby City Council meetings and public hearings and succeeded on 23rd December, 1997 in stopping the expansion of gambling in
2. CASJAFVA in educating the public about the legal rights of citizen and parents, and family values, participated in a forum “I love Canada” hosted by the Truth Monthly on 8th February, 1998. The convenor of CASJAFVA, K-John Cheung was invited as a guest speaker. The forum, consisting of representatives from the Federal government and different political parties, had alerted media and this led to a wider coverage of the issues raised at the Forum.
3. CASJAFVA was invited to attend a meeting with the press hosted by the “Coalition for the Protection of Parental Rights” on 12th March, 1998. CASJAFVA opposed the BC NDP government and school boards in their attempts to promote homosexuality as a normal, healthy, and acceptable way of life in the curriculum of public schools. CASJAFVA supported the Surrey School Board’s refusal to include homosexuality as part of the curriculum. On the 29th of the same month, CASJAFVA initiated a protest outside the BC Supreme Court in
4. On 31st March 1998, CASJAFVA held a media conference at the Chinese Cultural Centre, disclosing to the public that the Vancouver School Board had harbored an ex-employee (杜文) who had shown gross disrespect to parents when they presented petitions against the promotion of homosexuality. The School Board had failed to take any action to discipline the person in question. On the contrary, the School Broad apologized to him. The Board also promised to give a favourable testimonial to him for future employment. CASJAFVA formally lodged a protest to the School Board against such a miscarriage of justice and unfairness. The Vancouver School Broad was warned of any consequences for repetition of such serious, politically correct actions.
5. CASJAFVA, on 14th July 1998, had a forum on children at the Chinese Cultural Centre in regard to the Ministry’s abuse of authority by unjustifiably removing children from their homes. A child psychologist, was invited to speak on the topic of parents’ rights and responsibilities and to awaken the public, because the Minister of Social Services was abusing his authority by unwarrantedly breaking up families. CASJAFVA succeeded in pressuring the NDP government to return Mrs. Leung’s five-year old daughter who was the victim of such abuse.
6. CASJAFVA showed its deep concern about the persecution of Indonesian Chinese. In July, 1998, CASJAFVA advertised in 2 major Chinese newspapers, chastising the Indonesian government for allowing such an atrocity to occur. Letters were sent to the Prime Minister of Canada, the President of the
7. CASJAFVA’s representatives appeared in numerous television and media interviews in regard to gambling, drug, homosexuality, education, parental rights, and crimes to show CASJAFVA’s concern on the above issues.
8. CASJAFVA continues to monitor the working of various government departments, in particular with the Attorney General’s department, as CASJAFVA is concerned with problems arising from the lenient handling of pedophiles.
Mr. Chris Kempling, a Christian teacher in Quesnel (BC), wrote to local media and politicians (outside of school) in his own time expressing his critical views on inclusion and promotion of homosexuality in school, as a result of which he was found guilty of conduct unbecoming of a teacher by the BC College of Teachers (BCCT). CASJAFVA wrote to BCCT criticizing BCCT’s unjust deprivation of Kempling’s freedom of speech and religion and further brought to the attention of the media and politicians, the persecution of Kempling by BCCT. CASJAFVA held a rally on 9th November, 2002 outside BCCT’s office in
10. CASJAFVA started a campaign of writing letters by members of the general public to the Canada Blood Services (CBS) urging them to maintain the existing screening process of blood donors and not to change the questionnaire asking male donors: “Have you had sex with a man, even one time since 1997?” Later, CBS replied saying that no changes to any screening process would be made and assured CASJAFVA that CBS fully intended to operate the blood system by ensuring optimal safety of blood collected.
11. CASJAFVA launched a campaign urging Parliament to raise the age of consent for sex from 14 to 18. 8,700 individual petitions were collected from concerned citizens and delivered to Mr. John Duncan, Canadian Alliance MP, for presentation to Parliament. On the same day, a motion urging the Parliament to raise the age of consent for sex to 16 was also proposed by Canadian Alliance MPs. Mr. John Duncan also introduced CASJAFVA in the House of Commons, explaining CASJAFVA’s aims and works. (House of Commons has since passed legislation raising the age of consent for sex to 16 but the Liberal controlled Senate has yet to pass the legislation)
12. CASJAFVA participated as one of the intervenors in some important legal proceedings including the case of Surrey School Board disallowing three pro same-sex family books as learning materials for kindergarten and grade 1 students. The case went to the BC Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Another case CASJAFVA participated in was the case challenging the definition of marriage before the Supreme Court of BC and BC Court of Appeal.
13. In 2003, Mr. Vic Toews, Canadian Alliance MP and the Justice Critic of the Official Oppositions, presented 12,000 petitions collected by us (opposing Bill C-250-hate crimes and supporting traditional marriage) to Parliament and Parliament accepted the same, and the same became part of the records of Parliament. Mr. Toews also introduced CASJAFVA in the House of Commons, with their objectives and works.
CASJAFVA held a 10,000 strong rally in downtown
15. In defending the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, CASJAFVA has spent much of its resources. This fight is ongoing until
16. At the end of May, 2006, it came to our knowledge that the B.C. Liberal provincial government, through Mr. Wally Oppal, the Attorney General and Ms. Shirley Bond, the Minister of Education, had reached an unprecedented Settlement (“the Secret Settlement”) with two homosexual activists (“the Correns”) as a result of their complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal alleging that non-portrayal of homosexuals in B.C. curriculum constituted discrimination. The Secret Settlement with an unusual and unreasonable limited time-frame was meant to exclude any meaningful public consultation and participation. Essentially, the Secret Settlement gives the Correns and their recommended groups and individuals, privileged and undue influence in the revision of curriculum of all grades (Kindergarten to grade 12), unwarranted restrictions on and infringement of parents’ right to withdraw their children from classes teaching unacceptable sensitive materials, and the establishment of a new elective Social Justice course for grade 12 students. According to Vancouver Sun’s report, the Correns intended to incorporate into the curriculum “queer” history and historical figures, the presence of positive role models (past and present), the contributions made by “queers” and legal issues relating to them, so-called same-sex marriage and adoption. CASJAFVA’s position has been and is that a person’s sexual orientation is irrelevant to his/her contributions to the society and the country. The only reason for such agenda is to propagandize certain sexual preferences to young minds. Upon learning of the Secret Settlement, CASJAFVA immediately launched letter writing and media campaigns to alert the public, particularly parents, of the dangers of such a hidden agenda. CASJAFVA also commenced a petition drive. During the period from June, 2006 to March, 2007, CASJAFVA had incessant correspondence with the provincial government, collected more than 17,000 signatures demanding the same rights and entitlements as those given the Correns under the Secret Settlement, met with representatives of the government on the above issues, held seven protests outside the premier’s Vancouver office and one outside the provincial legislative building in Victoria and presented the above signatures to the provincial parliament through Mr. Richard Lee, MLA on March 1, 2007. ] The provincial government finally reached an agreement with CASJAFVA on March 5, 2007 agreeing to give CASJAFVA the same rights and entitlement as those given the Correns with respect to the aforesaid issues. Furthermore, CASJAFVA’s position has been and is that if sexual orientation is to be included in the curriculum, it must be presented in a fair, unbiased and objective manner including the pros and cons of such life styles, to which the government agreed. The implementation of the terms of the March 5, 2007 agreement with the provincial government depends on the provincial government honoring the terms of such agreement. CASJAFVA maintains and will maintain constant vigilance on the situation.
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