Many Canadians Oppose an Ambassador Like Mr.Cellucci Being Assigned to Canada

April 2, 2001

Open Letter To:

The President of the United States, The United States Senate,
The American and international media and The parents and voters of America

Mr. A. Paul Cellucci, governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has been nominated to become the United States' ambassador to Canada. As Canadians we respect the United States' prerogative to choose its ambassador to Canada. It is only with great consideration that this letter of concern and objection is written.

On issues affecting families and children, Mr. Cellucci's administration has repeatedly sided with radical groups who seek to overturn traditional morality and undermine the family unit as the vast majority people understand and revere it. To a frightening degree he has aided such groups in using public schools as a means of bypassing parents and subjecting children to ideological and sexual propaganda.

His legacy includes substantial and repeated intrusion on parental rights, radical activist nominations to the State Supreme Judicial Court, and continued funding of a so-called 'homosexual tolerance' program that has gone so far as to instruct children in detail on how to engage in grossly immoral and potentially lethal sexual acts. Most parents would be horrified.

Given the broad, unrelenting moral assault on children and families within both our nations, the President's nomination of Mr. Cellucci is both a disappointment and a mystery to many Canadians. Many of us are asking why the President would choose a person who is likely to undermine the efforts of the President himself on important social policy issues? It may not have occurred to the President that in appointing Mr. Cellucci, he is 'aiding' and 'abetting' an increasingly authoritarian government in Canada that is adamantly opposed to the most fundamental goals of his own administration.

Undoubtedly, Mr. Cellucci will be at home in Ottawa, but that is the problem. His presence would serve to alienate many Canadians who believe that our current government in Canada very much needs some sensible pressure applied to moderate its radical anti-family, and pro-UN/internationalist policies. Canada's policies on these issues are already amongst the most radically leftist in the world.

Consider the context into which you would send Mr. Cellucci and how his arrival in Ottawa would sadden millions of Canadians who are profoundly troubled about the erosion of religious freedom and the natural rights of parents:

• Startling examples of anti-religious bigotry increasingly come from Canada's ruling socialist political elite, including profoundly anti-Christian statements made recently by senior cabinet members of the current Ottawa government.
• Intolerance of traditional faith is deeply entrenched in the Canadian judiciary and bureaucracy. Religious broadcasters are subjected to censorship and restrictions on ownership that violate the spirit and the letter of the United States Constitution.
• Judges are appointed at the sole discretion of the Prime Minister's inner circle -- like cabinet, ambassadorial, senior military and police, bureaucratic and human rights tribunal appointments etc. Thus, the courts in Canada are even more aggressive in pursuing social revolution than their counterparts in the USA.
• The Canadian Federal government recently extended benefits historically afforded to married couples to same sex partners -- without consultation of the Canadian public and against the objections of millions of Canadians.
• Graduates of a major university are denied certification as teachers simply because the Judeo-Christian beliefs of that institution are considered "homophobic."
• There are no laws whatsoever, to protect the unborn at any stage. Abortions are fully paid for by taxpayers, as are sex change operations and other questionable procedures that cater to the Leftist agenda of the cultural elite.
• At every opportunity radical UN policies on social and moral issues are initiated and supported by our own Canadian government. Canadians finds themselves 'signed onto' extremist agendas that undermine not only national sovereignty, but also the family unit and parental rights -- without so much as a parliamentary debate, never mind a vote.

President Bush and the US Senate should be asking themselves if it is prudent to reinforce the anti-democratic and anti-family agenda of the current Canadian government by sending an ambassador whose entire track record is one of pushing that very agenda? Even if you don't care about the plight of Canadian parents and families, does the appointment of such a person serve the American interest?

After enduring two successive US administrations during which our radical neo-socialist government marched arm in arm with Bill Clinton on an anti-family, and pro-UN control agenda, we were hoping for a change. Canadians desperately need 'a break' from this relentless march to the left. Appointing Cellucci would be exactly the wrong signal at the wrong time, by an administration from which we had every reason to expect better.

For these and other reasons, we respectfully urge the President to reconsider, and every member of the United States Senate to reject the nomination of Paul Cellucci as the United States' ambassador to Canada.

Signed: