For the Christian Heritage Party’s candidate in Cariboo-Prince George, the upcoming federal election is a chance to take a stand on matters of conscience.
Speaking with The Citizen on April 3, Jake Wiens said his life’s journey took him from working in the public school system in Williams Lake to working in a church setting in Germany before spending the last 22 years of his career at Cedars Christian School in Prince George.
Six weeks ago, Wiens said, he realized he needed a platform to share his ideas and thought the Christian Heritage Party might be a good fit.
He also suggested the party could be known as the “Common Sense Party.”
While other parties, including the Conservative Party and the People’s Party, make similar claims, Wiens said his party goes deeper, addressing the moral issues at the heart of the country that he believes will eventually lead to its collapse.
“The tip of the spear of those moral issues is the abortion issue,” Wiens said. “We are adamantly pro-life. The beginning of life, end of life, that’s God’s domain, and we as humans, when we cross that domain, we’re in dangerous territory.”
It’s issues like this, he said, that his party is willing to address, while other conservative parties shy away from them.
“They will not bring those issues up because they are too divisive,” Wiens said. “Truth is divisive.”
Wiens also expressed his opposition to evolution, same-sex marriage, and “transgenderism.” He praised Alberta for requiring parental consent for children to change their pronouns, names, or receive gender-affirming care until they are 16 years old.
Regarding personal freedoms, Wiens and his party support them “within the guardrails of the Ten Commandments.”
“We want His blessing, we need His blessing,” Wiens said. “And when you look across Canada, we’ve got situations in our country — cities are burning, forests are burning, children are confused, suicides are way, way up, MAID is way up.”
On wildfires, Wiens clarified that he doesn’t see God as cursing the land. “But the Bible does teach that when we want to go our own way, when we cross those lines that God has created in creation, like the beginning of life, end of life … God withdraws.”
Asked how non-Christians fit into his party’s platform, Wiens said that if he were to go to Iran or Saudi Arabia, he would need to pay deference to Allah — the Arabic word for God.
When people of other faiths come to Canada, he said, they are provided with freedom of religion but must “give deference to the founding faith of our country.”
Wiens believes there are no people without faith, calling humanism, atheism, and wokeism their own faith systems.
He described “wokeism” as “Marxism on steroids.”
Regarding Indigenous peoples whose cultures and traditions predate the arrival of Christianity in North America, Wiens told The Citizen he believes residential schools helped students become part of Canadian culture and that the media has put too much focus on "bad examples" of events that occurred at the schools.
Since its founding in 1987, the Christian Heritage Party has never elected a candidate to Parliament.
By voting for his party, Wiens said, Canadians can send a message to Ottawa similar to the Freedom Convoy’s 2021 demonstration for “freedom of speech, freedom of health care,” but focused on the moral issues threatening the country.
“We want to send a strong message — why not do it from Northern B.C.?” Wiens asked.
For more information about Wiens’ campaign, visit jakewiens.ca.
