As the Conservative Party leadership race takes shape, social conservative groups are mobilizing to rally like-minded Canadians to buy memberships and to help to promote conservative social and economic policies such as those around family, conscience, individual rights and responsibilities, and fiscal accountability. Abortion and assisted suicide are among the issues of conscience that concern social conservatives. Scott Hayward, co-founder of pro-life group RightNow, told The Epoch Times that the percentage of Canadians who hold pro-life views on specific policy questions has grown across the country and within the Conservative Party. “We’ll be contacting the various candidates as they present themselves and they meet the criteria to be on the ballot, to find out where they stand on pro-life issues and what they’re willing to offer pro-lifers in terms of policy,” he said. “And, of course, we’ll be making a recommendation to our supporters as to how they should fill …