Family Coalition Party of Ontario candidates in the 1990 Ontario provincial election explained

The Family Coalition Party fielded several candidates in the 1990 provincial election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.

Candidates

Brantford

Peter Quail

Peter Quail is a cattle farmer and a seller of garden accessories.^[1] He has worked in Pakistan.^[2] In the 1980s, he was the North American distributor of a lightweight air-filtration helmet marketed for chronic and severe allergy sufferers.^[3] He served on the board of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute in 2005.^[4] Quail received 1,413 votes (3.87%) in 1990, finishing fourth against New Democratic Party candidate Brad Ward.

He wrote a letter to the National Post newspaper in 1999, arguing that parents should not calculate the financial costs of having children when deciding to start a family.^[5] The following year, he wrote a letter calling for retention of the Lord's Prayer in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.^[6] He has also written against the Kyoto Accord and has suggested that global warming is the result of a natural change in the Earth's temperature.^[7]

Cambridge

Anneliese Steden

Anneliese Steden was raised in Germany, spending some of her early years in a small village following World War II.^[8] She described herself as a retired nurse in 2003.^[9] She identifies as a Roman Catholic and is a veteran anti-abortion activist in Canada.^[10]

Steden has been a prominent member of the group Cambridge Right to Life for many years.^[11] During the 1980s, this group was known as one of the most active anti-abortion groups in Canada.^[12] She has also been active with Operation Rescue, a group known for its aggressive protests outside abortion clinics.^[13] She was arrested in 1998 for protesting outside a Toronto clinic in violation of a court injunction; the charge was later dismissed on a technicality.^[14] She has described her upbringing a pivotal influence on her decision to engage in civil disobedience, saying that the leaders of Nazi Germany were able to commit their crimes because of a population that passively followed authority.^[15]

As of 1999, legal abortion services were not provided in Cambridge. Steden has said that this was due, in part, to the aggressive protest activities that she took part in ten years earlier. Many supporters and detractors agreed.^[16]

Steden is also an anti-pornography activist. In 1992, she wrote an opinion piece condemning her local library for carrying an erotic book by the singer Madonna.^[17]

She has been a Family Coalition Party candidate in two elections. She also ran for a seat on the Cambridge city council in 1991, running a campaign that seems to have focused on local issues. She was fifty-four years old at the time and identified as a homemaker.^[18] In 2003, she ran for a seat on the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, opposing the presence of public health nurses in Catholic high schools.^[19]

Electoral record

Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1987 provincial	Cambridge	Family Coalition	1,500	4.58	4/4	Mike Farnan, New Democratic Party
1990 provincial	Cambridge	Family Coalition	2,364	6.53	4/4	Mike Farnan, New Democratic Party
1991 Cambridge municipal	City Council, Ward Five	n/a	def.			Bob Wall
2003 Cambridge municipal	Waterloo Region School Board	n/a	1,340	12.89	5/5	Judy Nairn, Manuel da Silva, and Mike McHugh

Hamilton Centre

Jewell Wolgram

Jewell Wolgram received 365 votes (1.44%), finishing sixth against New Democratic Party candidate David Christopherson.

Notes and References

1. Kelly Toughill, "Farmers face boycott, animal activist warns," Toronto Star, 4 February 1987, A7; English Country Garden Collection: About Us, accessed 10 November 2010.
2. Peter Quail, "Maybe the minority should show tolerance," Brantford Expositor, 9 March 2000, A8.
3. Judy Nyman, "Air filtration helmet may aid allergy sufferers," Toronto Star, 2 September 1986, C5; Pat McNenly, "'Space helmet' touted as aid for allergy sufferers," Toronto Star, 16 May 1988, A2.
4. https://www.utoronto.ca/bioethic/Documents/a%20propos%20V5N1%20May05.pdf à propos, Volume 5, Number 1, May 2005
5. Peter Quail, "Baby-making" (letter), National Post, 30 December 1999, A19.
6. Peter Quail, "Maybe the minority should show tolerance" (letter), Brantford Expositor, 9 March 2000, A8.
7. http://www.betterfarming.com/archive/letters-5.htm Peter Quail, "Let's hear the other side of the Kyoto debate" (letter)
8. Anneliese Steden, "We trusted our library not to purvey pornography" [opinion piece], Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 30 November 1992, A5.
9. Luisa D'Amato, "Trustee rift offers voters two choices," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 5 November 2003, B4.
10. Anneliese Steden, "They'll ignore it," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 26 April 1995, A10. See has said that she became a Christian in 1977. See Eric Volmers, "Political activism or intimidation?; In the early 1990s, Cambridge was a battlefield in the war over legalized abortion," Cambridge Reporter, 4 December 1999, A3.
11. David Vienneau, "New abortion law won't end the fighting," Toronto Star, 26 May 1990, D5; Luisa D'Amato, "Trustee rift offers voters two choices," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 5 November 2003, B4.
12. Eric Volmers, "Political activism or intimidation?; In the early 1990s, Cambridge was a battlefield in the war over legalized abortion," Cambridge Reporter, 4 December 1999, A3.
13. Catherine Thompson, "Farnan says he'll abide by policy on abortion," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 18 October 1990, A8.
14. Barbara Aggerholm, "Will challenge injunction, jailed abortion foe says," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 22 September 1998, B1; Tony Reinhart and Liz Monteiro, "Cambridge abortion foe acquitted," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 3 March 1999, B1.
15. Mirko Petricevic, "'God's law is higher'; Civil disobedience has been used by Christians for centuries to challenge laws their beliefs tell them are unjust," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 14 August 2004, J8.
16. Eric Volmers, "Political activism or intimidation?; In the early 1990s, Cambridge was a battlefield in the war over legalized abortion," Cambridge Reporter, 4 December 1999, A3.
17. Anneliese Steden, "We trusted our library not to purvey pornography" [opinion piece], Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 30 November 1992, A5.
18. Christian Aagaard, "Cambridge race for Ward 4 may be city's hotest [sic]", Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 2 October 1991, B4; "Anti-development voters wooed by three candidates," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 9 November 1991, A7.
19. Luisa D'Amato, "Few run for public board," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 22 September 2003, A1; Luisa D'Amato, "Trustee rift offers voters two choices," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 5 November 2003, B4.