Trudeau's abortion policy lays groundwork for 2015 election
It was a clumsy 10 seconds when Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was weighing in his head how to answer the question of whether he'd whip MP votes on any abortion issues that might come up in Parliament.
"Um. That is. Uh, uh, an issue that ... I've committed in my ... Well, it is a tough one," he said to reporters in the House of Commons, before getting into the groove of an answer that ultimately threw Parliament Hill-goers and members of his own party for a loop.
Trudeau said future candidates would be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills, and that "moving forward, the party that we're building ... will be resolutely pro-choice."
The announcement surprised a number of Liberal MPs and created a flurry of confusion within party ranks about whether anti-abortion candidates (including former Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers) would be excluded from the party in the future.
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