The CNP was founded in 1981 with Tim LaHaye as the first president and his allies in the New Right salon that created the Moral Majority in 1979–Billings, McAteer, Falwell, Weyrich, Phillips, and Viguerie–joined this new group.

The Moral Majority was cooked up by a coalition of Christian Right activists and ultraconservative political strategists who planned to take over the Republican Party. In 1979 Christian Right activist Robert Billings of the National Christian Action Council invited a popular televangelist, Jerry Falwell, along with Ed McAteer of the Religious Roundtable to a meeting with ultraconservative political strategists. The strategists were direct-mail wizard Richard Viguerie; Paul Weyrich (an agent of Joseph Coors, Weyrich helped create the Heritage Foundation in 1973, and later founded the Free Congress Foundation)

While your friend may not have shared some of his friends beliefs listed above, he is an active associate. His bio over at the CNP website. http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.w.htm#pweyrich

Bio for Mr. Weyrich - Arlington Group http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/weyrich/041203

Dominionism: Protestant Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists belief that encourages them to not only be active political participants in civic society, but also seek to dominate the political process as part of a mandate from God.

Paul Weyrich is NOT a Protestant, nor is he an evangelical. He’s more or less Eastern Orthodox. He’s for the restoration of Christian culture in public life, not for any Church controlling the levers of politics. Perhaps the Socialists in the Canadian Liberal Party, the NDP and Bloc Quebecois ought to separate their secularist convictions from their politics for the sake of fairness. LOL

He is every bit as skeptical of a religious institution’s ability to govern as the next person. Weyrich finds it personally offensive that his enemies associate him with Reconstructionism because he considers it heretical from a theological standpoint.

All he is saying is that Christian beliefs have a place in the public square and that secularist fanatics need to learn a little tolerance themselves. Freedom of thought and freedom of speech matter to secularists as long as they like what they are hearing.

Anyone ever hear of the French Revolution. My ancestor lost his head because he wasn’t secular enough. LOL. Tolerance in action, gotta love it.

Nothing like theologically ignorant bigots to twist the truth.

Ask Australians about Family First or New Zealanders about Destiny. This belief and movement is abberant and expected.
James Dobson has done a great deal for the family. He didn’t know when to stop. I don’t know what Dobson is other than a corporation and conservative that has deviated from what he was best at. The Family Research Council - it’s a sham, a dangerous one that may tickle the right ears, and it is sad that Dobson thought he get what ever it is he wants by implementing it.
I work at distinguishing between believing conservatives and the Dobsons, Robertstons et al. If I err, may it be on the side of caution and in the character of Jesus Christ.

Dominionism: Protestant Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists belief that encourages them to not only be active political participants in civic society, but also seek to dominate the political process as part of a mandate from God.

This highly politicized concept of dominionism is based on the Bible’s text in Genesis 1:26:

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” (King James Version).

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’” NIC

Christians read this text and conclude that God has appointed them stewards and caretakers of Earth. Some people think that Christians alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns.

a) it’s about power
b) it’s about politics
c) it’s about spiritual immaturity, need and lack of discernment

A definition from Scott Isebrand:

Dominionism: A religio-political movement with pervasive influence in the Christian Right that stresses the need for Christians to exercise dominion–control–over both the natural world and human institutions. As it is chiefly an American phenomenon, dominionism’s practical manifestation is in promoting the ideal of or actively working towards gaining control of political and governmental institutions and processes in the United States. Dominionism’s adherents are typicaly conservative Protestants, including conservative evangelicals and Fundamentalists. As is the case with many though not all members of the Christian Right, most people ascribing to and influenced by dominionism insist that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, (see AU.org “Is America a ‘Christian Nation’”) therefore they see their efforts as a Christian reclamation of American society.

ref: Theocracy Watch

Weyrich’s part of that theocon block in the US, but I don’t know if he fits the theological definition of dominionist, at least not from what I’ve seen of him over the years.

As far as how that plays out in Canada, peace; there are enough Peter McKay-type centrists in the Conservative Party to keep your “dominionists” in check, even if the Tories get a majority.