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The Office of Religious Freedom? Do we really need another cadre of bureaucrats to tell us what the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 2 says?

Published December 9, 2011 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Big Brother, Charter of Rights and Freedoms Breaches


I must admit I was horrified when I heard the name “Office of Religious Freedom.”  The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms clearly says the following:

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

(a) freedom of conscience and religion;

(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;

(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and

(d) freedom of association.

Even for the Charter, that’s pretty clear and simple language.

Every Canadian citizen has the right to worship (or not) as he or she sees fit. How on earth can setting up another massive and unaccountable bureaucracy improve on that?

My position, for those who haven’t figured that out yet, is that it can’t.

The only power that government bureaucrats have is to crush an individual with the power of the state.  I’m continually amazed that people insist that “we need another government program” to solve some problem, real or imagined.

The very last thing we need is another government program.

What we desperately need is a nation of people willing to actually stand up for themselves and their own individual rights, not more government bureaucrats decreeing for us what rights the state is willing to grant us this week.

If our concerns are for how other nations are treating their citizens, we already have a Foreign Affairs Department devoted to this and many more issues.

So why are we creating another bureaucracy?

That’s the $64,000 question that nobody is even asking.

In a CBC article published on December 7th, 2011, writer Louise Elliott whined that

Panelists invited to closed-door consultations on a new Office of Religious Freedom were drawn almost exclusively from western religions, primarily Christianity, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

and…

The government has remained virtually mum on how the panelists and scores of participants were chosen for the one-day session.

She posted a link to a document that lists the biographies of the individuals appearing before Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird this past October.

She then went on to quote some loudmouth from McGill University, Arvind Sharma, who could do nothing but complain that he hadn’t been invited.  Or at least that’s what I presume he was whining about when he complained

“There’s no representation of religions from Indian and Chinese origin … so this is very one-sided,” he said.

Secretary-general of Amnesty International Alex Neve also couldn’t help getting into the fray.  Elliott quoted him thus:

“We weren’t invited, and this is troubling.”

Both Louise Elliott, Arvind Sharma and Alex Neve  are busying themselves with the wrong questions.

The question these government-paid shills (and Neve) should be asking is not

“Who was asked to address the Foreign Affairs Minister?”

or

“I think I’m really important. Why wasn’t I invited to speak?”

The question they should be asking is this:

Why do we think we need an Office of Religious Freedom in the first place?

 

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Comments

  1. don b says

    December 9, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    Theres never enough money for these clowns to waste

    Reply
  2. Jane says

    December 9, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    I, too, was curious why Canada thought there was a need to set up an Office of Religious Freedom. But, then, nothing the Canadian government does any more surprises me.

    I figured the Office of Religious Freedom to be a ploy to let the Muslims overpower the Christian religions, Charter of Rights and Freedoms be damned, and to further allow Sharia law to overpower Canadian law. Voilà! A worthless “made-in-Canada” Constitution that purposely splintered a country into a “made-in-Canada” civil war.

    Your article indicates that a whiner was complaining that the (East) Indians and Chinese weren’t invited to address Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird in October.

    Good.

    Maybe all the minority Sikhs and Buddhists can duke it out with the minority Muslims while the Christians and Christian law retain the high ground in this Christian-based society before the Canadian government goes stupider and, taking a cue from the United States, turns the military on its own people.

    God, give me strength, and please bestow some sanity on the Canadian government and over this once happy and tranquil land.

    Reply
  3. rabbit says

    January 1, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    Astonishing that no one here appears to know that the Ministry is for defending freedom of religion abroad and that it’s part of the foreign affairs office.

    Really, smarten up.

    Reply

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