Losing Control, Canada's Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights

Shedding a bright light on a dark side of Canadian politics, Losing Control critically examines Canada's social conservative movement and discovers a reactionary, anti-reform insurgency of evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics. Tom Warner chronicles the religious right's advocacy on a range of moral issues -- from abortion and the regulation of consensual sex to same-sex marriage and moral instruction in the public schools. He finds a movement desperate not to lose control of the state's moral agenda in the age of Charter rights. This timely and important book raises alarming questions about the close relationship between a resilient, never-say-die social conservative constituency and the political direction of the Conservative Party of Canada.