Canada's national pro-life and pro-family political lobbying group, Campaign Life, signed up more than 26,000 party members in time to qualify to vote in the leadership race, says Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life's director of political operations.

"This more than doubles the 11,000 memberships we recruited during the 2017 leadership race in support of Brad Trost and Pierre Lemieux, and represents 10 percent of eligible voters, just from our supporters alone," he told LifeSiteNews.

Moreover, Campaign Life "put everything on the line" financially and asked their supporters to donate to all pro-life leadership contenders because it saw that "red Tory progressives were planning to eliminate pro-life and pro-family values from the Conservative Party once and for all," Fonseca said.

"We knew that we had to ensure so-con candidates were able to get on the ballot and be competitive regardless of the outcome, otherwise we would have no voice whatsoever during the race, which would allow the establishment to push pro-life and pro-family people out of the party forever."

Political insiders are now predicting that the social conservative vote will be crucial in determining the next leader if presumed frontrunner and former Nova Scotia M.P. Peter MacKay doesn't win on the first ballot, according to an analysis in The Hill Times.

The contest closes this Friday at 5pm, and the party will announce the results of the mail-in ranked ballot Sunday, August 23, at 6pm E.T.

Campaign Life is advising pro-life Tories to vote for rookie Ontario M.P. Derek Sloan and Toronto lawyer Leslyn Lewis and eschew MacKay and Ontario M.P. Erin O'Toole in the four-way race.

With contestants focused on getting out the vote, the party received over 150,000 ballots by August 19, communications director Cory Hann told members in a fundraising email.

"This crushes the 103,342 votes cast for Trudeau in the 2013 Liberal Leadership—the highest turnout in a non-CPC Leadership to date," Hann said.

"Over 150,000 ballots accepted even beats our old record of 141,694 total votes in 2017," he said, adding that more ballots are expected to come in before the August 21 deadline.

Campaign Life started recruiting new members in October "when the writing was on the wall that Andrew Scheer would be forced to resign," Fonseca told LifeSiteNews.

The pro-life organization knew that social conservatives would throw their hats into the ring.

However, of the four that did so, Tory party brass barred Quebecer Richard Décarie from running in March and disqualified Ontario lawyer Jim Karaholios in May.

Moreover, the party "put up crazy, unprecedented barriers to entry in the race, including a never-before seen $300,000 buy-in per candidate, plus 3,000 signatures from at least 30 ridings across at least seven provinces," Fonseca said.

This "massive financial barrier to entry" favored "liberal progressives" over social conservatives who generally have large families and are "not wealthy," he told LifeSiteNews.

Because of this, Campaign Life "went to the mat for the four pro-life candidates, aggressively and repeatedly asking our entire supporter database to donate to their leadership campaigns to help them meet the $300,000 buy-in before the very short party deadline," Fonseca said.

"By our estimates, we drove $100,000 in donations to each of the Lewis, Sloan, and Karahalios campaigns—Décarie was ousted early, so he didn't get a chance to make it as far, although we directed donations to his campaign, too," even while knowing that doing so "could devastate our own donations," which admittedly "did take a hit," he said.

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