Slingerland takes another shot as CHP candidate

By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on April 10, 2025.

The Christian Heritage Party (CHP) has entered the race for the federal election announcing Marc Slingerland being the candidate for the Lethbridge riding.
Slingerland, a teacher and school administrator at Calvin Christian School near Monarch, is a life-long resident of Lethbridge. This is his third time running for the CHP, as he also ran in the 2019 and 2006.
He says his biggest commitment is to protecting life from conception to natural death.
“I think it’s very important to have an opportunity to vote a candidate and a party that is 100 per cent pro-life that stands for the value of every human life from conception to natural death that defends families as the foundation of society and that advocates for freedoms for Canadians.”
Slingerland says he also believes in the importance of making foster care and adoption accessible for those who desire to help the most vulnerable, he also believes in the importance of keeping families together whenever possible.
“Foster care is important, but t’s not as good as children being raised in secure, stable families themselves, so addressing the causes of the family instability is an even better approach.”
Slingerland also wants to put more focus on Canadian families and workers. While he recognizes that Canada was founded from immigration, he also wants parents to be able to have as many children as they choose. To help support this, Slingerland wants to change the tax policy for families where one parent stays home.
On top of supporting growing families, he says he supports conversion therapy – a highly controversial practice aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation and/or sexual identity that has been prohibited in Canada since 2022 – especially when it comes to children.
“These are people who are really hurting, but rather than investigating whether there’s other factors that may be at play, you can’t even question anymore and we’re seeing the harms of that.”
Slingerland says the CHP recognizes that families are where the next generation of Canadians will come from and there is a distinct difference between mothering and fathering.
“I believe, and the Christian Heritage Party believes, in marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and any other arrangement is not actually marriage.”
With the Lethbridge riding representing both urban and rural Canadians, Slingerland hopes to be able to help with the division between by using his riding as an example of how cities need rural industries such as agriculture.
When it comes to the threat of tariffs, he believes the best solution is to focus on the economy by lowering the national debt and developing the natural resource, which Canada has plenty of as he believes there is no way Canada can win a tariff war and Canadians will end up paying for it in the end.
“So, let’s focus on the priorities: national defence and sovereignty, get government out of picking winners and losers and allow Canadians, entrepreneurs (and) businesses to develop the resources to create those opportunities. It’s not a matter of government creating those opportunities, it’s a matter of government creating the conditions in which Canadians can exercise their passion and their abilities to allow Canadians to thrive.”
The CHP believes the Christian history of Canada is what made Canada a strong country to begin with.
“If you look around the world at which countries have the greatest commitment to human rights, the greatest protection of freedom, the strongest adherence to the rule of law it’s exactly those countries that are founded on Christian principles.”

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