Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer appears to be backtracking on a campaign commitment to stop efforts to reopen the abortion debate, with a Conservative MP allowed to introduce a bill seeking to ban abortions for the purpose of choosing a child's sex. Harper's move was linked to his repeated declarations that he wouldn't allow the abortion debate to be re-opened. Jefferies said Conservatives would be able to vote how they wished on the bill, but wouldn't say how Scheer himself would vote. "Like the overwhelming majority of Canadians, Mr. Scheer finds the practice of getting an abortion specifically to avoid having a baby girl abhorrent," Jefferies said. Sloan has also said he'd encourage MPs to bring up and debate abortion issues.

Source: CBC News February 27, 2020 20:26 UTC