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OTTAWA — Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay once called social-conservative causes a “stinking albatross” thrust onto the election agenda that hung around leader Andrew Scheer’s neck and kept the party from winning a majority last fall.

But though MacKay blamed the Liberals for forcing the issue then, a Conservative MP put them back on the agenda just as the deadline arrived Thursday to register in the party’s leadership race.

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Saskatchewan MP Cathay Wagantall put forward a private member’s bill this week that would ban sex-selective abortions, the practice of terminating a pregnancy in order to choose a child’s sex.

She said the bill reflects Canada’s commitment to gender equality.

“It is true that the majority of Canadians agree with having access to abortions,” she said Wednesday. “It is also true that 84 per cent of Canadians stand against sex-selection abortions.”