By Tim Waggoner

OTTAWA, September 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After serving for 13 years as the Christian Heritage Party's national leader, Ron Gray has announced his retirement, initiating a leadership race to be decided this fall.

Gray was one of the first crop of CHP candidates in the 1988 federal election, before becoming party leader in 1995. He three times reconfirmed his leadership, in 1998, 2001 and 2005, the last two times in a unanimous vote. After starting his career with the Vancouver Sun, Gray worked most of his life in B.C., where he and his wife Janet raised nine children; they are grandparents to 15.

Campaign Life Coalition president Jim Hughes praised Gray for his dedication to the CHP.

"He did a fine job leading the Christian Heritage Party and was a good friend of Campaign Life Coalition," said Hughes. "Ron was a stalwart defender of life and family and I thank him for his fine service and wish him all the best."

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Jemdude, thanks for posting this. i was just on the website a few days ago. there are probably not too many Canadians here, so may not be familiar with the CHP(I'm not really Canadian, my wife is). Keep the updates coming though.

You're welcome. Canada will be having an election that our Prime Minister decided to call out of the blue. (Unlike the US, Canada doesn't have fixed elections) scheduled for mid October . That means that I have only a few weeks to go out and collect signatures. One advantage Canada has over the US is that we only have to collect 125 signatures vs the US's 20,000 signatures if memory serves me right.

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