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Canadians are bad, but French Canadians are just the absolute worst. Distilled colonialism shouldn't exist.
Instead of feel-good measures like this, they should TAX mosques, churches, temples, prayer sheds, whatever. (it feels good to ME, anyway)
In USA, religions pay virtually nothing, with many more benefits than any secular charity or non-profit.
There's a whole slew of non -profit orgs that would feel pain before religious ones were taxed at any reasonable level.
This does remove some direct funding, in the public funded orgs won't have to set aside building space for religion. Students will also have access to different/closer/better schooling if the Catholic schools are not allowed to select students based on their religion, which is great and I don't know how they were allowed to do that based on our Charter of freedoms
i imagine a situation where churches could keep non-profit status as long as they provided some tangible service to the community. homeless feedings and things like that
I don't believe in any religion, don't like religion, but I also realize that it's not the governments place to tell people what they can and can't believe.
Besides that, given the specifics of this law it's rather easy to see it's not even about religion as a whole. It's just more Islamophobia.
it’s not the governments place to tell people what they can and can’t believe
Right, which is why they are requiring schools that receive public funds to stop discriminating against students
It’s just more Islamophobia.
Also yes and we'll work on that, but it prompted them into a sensible change.
What problem does this solve?
It tells religious freaks that we don't have to live OUR lives based on THEIR delusions.
By denying them theirs?
But you already didn't have to live your life by them...
Yes, we do, whenever the government bows to their ludicrous demands, which is ALWAYS. Despite the fact that the Constitutionally expressly forbids it, our nation's culture and society has been crafted around Christianity, simply because these screwballs are so relentless, that lazy politicians (redundant) find it easier to give them what they want, than fight the endless culture war with them.
And since they don't have to pay taxes, or account for their fraudulent fund-raising activities, they have plenty of money to buy politicians to influence the government to favor them.
The Constitution's official stand on religion is Atheism. We need to enforce that.
The lack of oppression, there are people who got too comfortable with the illusion of power. Hence, they have to generate misery while they still can.
No, I think is more absurd. They look at the US and overcorrect. There’s a reasonable middle ground where a grey area in processing works itself out after a few generations. That is totally skipped with this volatile approach.
Fuck religion but fuck stupid laws like this. Seriously this is just as stupid as the age verification stuff everyone he is mad about.
People have the right to do their rituals if it makes them feel good...
Not only that, but if you want to end religion, causing people to think their religion is under attack from the outside is the best way to isolate everyone in that religion and make them far more likely to stay in that religion for life.