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Mike Del Grande’s heroic battle is moving forward.

But first we have some bad news… and some good
news.

The bad news is that the Court of
Appeals of Ontario has dismissed Trustee Mike Del Grande’s lawsuit
against the Toronto Catholic District School Board. (The legal action was
launched over the TCDSB finding him guilty of “misconduct” for speaking against
a motion to add Transgender Ideology to the board’s Code of Conduct policy.)

Even worse, the judges ruled that he has to
pay a $47,500 cost award to the TCDSB.

The good news however, is that Michael
is willing to finish the race and fight this all the way to the Supreme Court
of Canada… if CLC and its supporters stand behind
him! A victory at the Supreme Court would also reverse all the cost awards made
against him to date, including the $140,000 cost that the lower court awarded to the TCDSB.

We’re so glad about Michael’s willingness
to keep fighting. Wouldn’t it be a shame to walk off the field in the seventh
inning, just because the umpire made a bad call and we’re down a run? Mike has
come this far already. Don’t you agree he needs to go the full nine innings and
get the job done? 

St. Paul admonished all Christians to
“finish the race”. (2 Timothy 4:6-8) 

Well, Trustee Del Grande is certainly
modelling this teaching. After reading the decision and listening to his legal
team’s advice about the path they believe exists for a win at the Supreme Court
level, he told CLC:

“If I know
that I’ve got a supportive team behind me, I’m willing to go all the way”.

It’s especially inspiring to see this
attitude from Mike, given how much he has been made to suffer physically and
emotionally by the virulently anti-Catholic trustees on his board.

A couple of years ago, the board persecuted
him so badly, and trashed his reputation so publicly, that it almost killed
him. The stress of it all put him in an ambulance where they had to use
electric paddles on his heart.

But Del
Grande didn’t quit.

He kept fighting for his religious freedom,
free speech, and the right of Catholic schools to operate in an authentically
Christian environment.

It’s going to cost potentially another
$100,000 for our hero to fight this in the Supreme Court. However, Mike doesn’t
have the money for it.

So, it depends on you to decide if you’ll be on his “team”, to help him get
that ninth inning win.

If we can raise the necessary funding for
Mike’s legal defense, this martyr for the faith will step forward to the
Supreme Court.

But if we can’t raise the money, he’ll have
to abandon the fight, pay the TCDSB their cost awards as granted by the court,
and give up. Nobody will ever know if the nine Supreme Court justices might
have ruled in his favour.

Although victory can’t be guaranteed, CLC
has reviewed the legal strategy proposed by Michael’s lawyers, and we believe
it’s sound. Certainly, quitting so close to the end, after three levels of
court, would be a crying shame!

Therefore, today, Campaign Life Coalition is launching this
brand-new crowdfunding campaign on the Life Funder platform.  

Please pray for Michael and ask God to guide
your response to this appeal.

God Bless!

NOTE: All donations (less credit card / processing fees) will be used to cover Michael Del Grande’s legal costs. If you wish to make a donation offline, contact Campaign Life Coalition at 1-800-730-5358 or mail a cheque to: Campaign Life Coalition, 157 Catharine St. N., 2nd Floor, Hamilton, ON, L8L 4S4. Please make it payable to ‘Campaign Life Coalition’ and include “Mike Del Grande” in the memo field. Campaign Life Coalition has set up this crowdfunding page on his behalf.