Christian Heritage Party of Canada

Christian Heritage Party of Canada Parti de l'héritage chrétien du Canada
Active federal party
Leader	Rod Taylor
President	Jerome Dondo
Founded	1987 (1987)
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario
Membership (2015)	6,000[1]
Ideology	Christian right
Political position	Right-wing
Colours	Burgundy
Senate	0 / 105
House of Commons	0 / 338
Website
www.chp.ca
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The Christian Heritage Party of Canada (French: Parti de l'héritage chrétien du Canada), also referred to as CHP Canada,^[2] is a minor social conservative and Christian right federal political party in Canada; it was founded in 1987, the brainchild of two couples in British Columbia, namely Bill and Heather Stilwell who were Roman Catholics and Ed Vanwoudenberg and his wife, Reformed Protestants. CHP advocates for Canada to be governed according to Christian principles and ethics. The party's stated principle is that "the purpose of civil government is to ensure security, freedom, and justice for all its citizens from conception till natural death, by upholding just laws".^[3] CHP states that, if the party forms government, it hopes to "apply proven Judeo-Christian principles of justice and compassion to Canada's contemporary public policy needs".^[4]

Ed Vanwoudenberg was elected its first leader at the 1987 founding convention in Hamilton, Ontario. Jim Hnatiuk led the party from 2008 to early 2014, and Rod Taylor is the leader as of November 7, 2014.^[5]

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.^{[citation needed]} and has run candidates in every subsequent election to that.

Many of its founders had been members of the Social Credit movement. The majority of its members are Dutch Canadians who attend Dutch Reformed Churches.^[1]