CAMBRIDGE RIDING

JOHN G. GOTS

Tel: (519) 836-3208, Fax: (519) 767-6647, E-mail: johnbarra@sympatico.ca

John G. Gots is the husband of Barra. Both of us are: in our sixties, been in Guelph more then forty years, have two grown children, and are discovering delights of grandchildren. We live a simple life. I work as an engineer in a manufacturing environment. Barra does some part time work as a biologist. We join our neighbours in community activities, in Catholic renewal, and promote the traditional family in society.

Therefore, we support organizations that uphold life. As Christian Heritage Party candidate for Cambridge in 2000, I had an opportunity to give the community a clear alternative to politics as usual and for strengthening the family’s position in public life. Today the family remains under attack with increased intensity. I chose to run again as a candidate for the Christian Heritage Party, because in a society where family life is weakened and manipulated to fail by external forces; the government advances, intrudes, and eventually compels. My experience as a refugee from a centralized state dictatorship, that Hungary was in the mid fifties, confirms for me that strong families are the key to a free, healthy and prosperous society.

We need a government where public and hidden policy does not undermine the needs of mother, father and children. Life is for the living. I feel that in the family and its value system rests the survival and prosperity of our communities. For it is within the traditional family where human life has the best chance to grow and develop to its full potential. Without that life, neither church nor state or society survives. At present our families are fragmenting under the pressure of external, economic, and social burdens. Some say that finances are the major factor in marriage breakdown. This is not surprising as the family capacity to generate disposable income and wealth is usurped by over-centralized, distant governments that feed on their sacrifices. This I have experienced in hand-to-mouth existence before coming to Canada. I am very much for upholding the needs of the family in public life. Families are our primary social safety net in times of trouble and hurt. That is where the real education of children takes place and values are transmitted to lay foundations for our future.

Last update: May 27, 2004
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