Rod Taylor, leader of the federal Christian Heritage Party (CHP) of Canada will be in Yorkton Monday for a meet and greet.
The event will be held at Yorkton Crossing Retirement Community at 1:30 p.m.
Taylor has been party leader since 2014, taking over from Jim Hnatiuk who led the party from 2008 to early 2014. Ed Vanwoudenberg was elected the Party’s first leader at the 1987 founding convention in Hamilton, ON.
“Taylor was born in 1951 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His family was involved in the US civil rights movement in the 1960s and various other social justice issues. He graduated from high school in California and moved with his parents and siblings to British Columbia (BC) in 1968,” details Wikipedia.
In 2001, Taylor ran as a provincial candidate for the British Columbia Unity Party, and in 2004, 2006 and 2008 he represented the CHP in the federal riding of Skeena-Bulkley Valley.
So, what is the CHP in a nutshell?
From the Party’s website; “the CHP is Canada’s only pro-Life federal political party, and the only federal party that endorses the Judeo-Christian principles enshrined in the Canadian Constitution: ‘Canada was founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God’ – capital ‘G': the God of the Bible -‘and the rule of law.’”
The party nominated candidates for the first time in the 1988 federal election, and ran numerous candidates in the 1993 and 1997 elections. It was unable to field 50 candidates in the 2000 election and was consequently de-registered by Elections Canada, the government elections agency. The party was re-registered in time for the 2004 election.
