The Canadian charter of rights and freedoms guarantees freedom of religion. That means freedom to worship in private or public. Unless you're planning on bending the constitution, you can't remove public display of religion in Canada.
Well done. 👏😂
If you aren't considering what the downside of this type of law is, then I don't think you're engaging beyond stating your beliefs. Clearly there are problems with it and people have expressed them. And as I said it is likely to be found unconstitutional.
The law is specifically about arbitrating the display of religious symbols in government institutions in order to enforce visible separation of church and state. It's not saying that Muslims have to adopt a different culture. Also, it could very well be unconstitutional. That remains to be seen but there's a high likelihood.
This is not how Canada operates. Canada isn't a melting pot.
And they still issued a recall, wow.
Could this be a sign that Carney isn't a rabid Zionist?
For sure. I rather meant that it's unlikely the US would let Lockheed give us the unmanaged F35 version.
Sadly no update from Mainstreet.
In the current Canada-US political climate?
I guess we could and if they say no, we use that to cancel the rest.
They're now projecting:
- Liberal majority with 61.4%
- Liberal minority with 32%
- Con majority with 1%
- Con minority with 5.5%
The 2-day rollup numbers...
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It can be amended of course, but you mentioned bending the laws to accomodate religion. I'm just setting that part straight. The laws (in Canada) aren't bent to allow for religious freedom, they guarantee it.
It's worth considering the material conditions upon which the Charter was created. Religion was prevalent and religious people wanted to be free from being persecuted for their religion. Today irreligious people in Canada are about a third. If we amended the Charter to curb public religious display, it would go against the majority of Canadians. That's undemocratic, and unrepresentative of the reality of the country. If some gov did that, it would likely experience severe backlash and the changes would be reversed to more closely match the material conditions.
I'm also an anti-theist and would love religion to disappear, but I think that cannot occur through repression via law or other means. Rather people of religious cultures have to go through the material evolution secular societies have. The Eastern bloc did a lot of work to repress religion. Yet irreligious people are still a minority in those countries.