Tristan Alexander Emmanuel is a Canadian political and religious activist.
22 Facts About Tristan Emmanuel
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Tristan Emmanuel is the founder and former president of the Equipping Christians for the Public-square Centre and an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage in Canada.
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Tristan Emmanuel is the president of Freedom Press Canada Inc.
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Tristan Emmanuel operated a small freight delivery company in Ontario's Niagara region in the 1990s, and served as the pastor of Living Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Vineland.
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Tristan Emmanuel later worked toward a Master's degree at McMaster University's Divinity School, writing about the efforts of early Christian apologists to lobby Roman Emperors.
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Tristan Emmanuel remained its president for several years, before resigning in 2008.
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Tristan Emmanuel was a candidate for the socially conservative Family Coalition Party in the Lincoln electoral division in the 1995 Ontario provincial election.
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Tristan Emmanuel opposed the Progressive Conservative Party's workfare proposal, which he described as "nothing more than slavery".
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Tristan Emmanuel finished fourth against Progressive Conservative candidate Frank Sheehan.
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Tristan Emmanuel ran against prominent federal politician Sheila Copps in a 1996 by-election as a candidate of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada.
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Tristan Emmanuel ran for the Christian Heritage Party in the 1997 federal election, and finished fifth against Liberal incumbent Walt Lastewka.
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Tristan Emmanuel became more involved with right-wing and socially conservative campaigns in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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The New Democratic Party of Ontario issued a press release with excerpts from several of Tristan Emmanuel's writings, asserting that he had described gay men as "sexual deviants" and Islam as "as far from peace, as hell is from heaven" in separate articles written in 2002.
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Tristan Emmanuel campaigned against the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Canada in 2005, organizing several rallies across the country, including one outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa and another at Queen's Park outside the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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Tristan Emmanuel sought to include non-Christian groups in these events, inviting Jewish and Muslim representatives as speakers.
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Tristan Emmanuel sought to build connections with the American Christian right.
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In late 2005, Tristan Emmanuel undertook a speaking tour of the United States.
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Tristan Emmanuel argued that Canada's political establishment was attempting to export a liberal culture to the United States via the United Nations, and encouraged Canadian citizens living in the United States to vote against the Liberal Party in the 2006 federal election.
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Later in the year, Tristan Emmanuel told a conference in Washington, DC that Christians were discriminated against in Canada.
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Tristan Emmanuel resurfaced in 2009 as campaign manager for Randy Hillier, in the latter's bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
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Tristan Emmanuel is the author of a book entitled, Christophobia: The Real Reason Behind Hate Crime Legislation, in which he argues that hate crime legislation in Canada has resulted in a loss of religious freedom.
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Tristan Emmanuel is the author of the 2006 book Warned: Canada's Revolution Against Faith, Family, and Freedom Threatens America.