- Harper, Canada's Religious Leader???

Posted: 7:23am, 27 Apr.'10 CBC News
Oda opens G8 meeting in Halifax, April 27, 2010, CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/04/27/g8-oda-introduction.html Tab 10


Bob Rae is right (morally right that is).

Stephen Harper and the Con's are basing their policies on very narrow non-secular agenda. We have seen this blurring of the State and religion numerous times from Harper.

Of course that is what extremism, intolerance is all about. What's insidious is that it is religious based.

Policies ought to be based on rational considerations based on the facts and for the good of all, not emotionalism and the religious beliefs of a few. Canada is not Iran.

Surely abortion is a question of personal conscience. Why is that Harper knows what is good and bad for me and everyone else in the world. Why is it he has the right to dictate to me what is good and bad. He's a politician, for God's sake. He hasn't been anointed as the religious leader of Canada. If we are going to be a non-secular State I would rather Canada be run by the Pope, at least I can trust him.

By blurring religion and the State and implementing such religiously based policies Harper and the Con's are in fact imposing their religious beliefs on me and all Canadians, and thus restricting my freedom to practice my religion.

Clearly this is a violation of the Charter and which is not demonstrably justified in a free and democracy society (2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:(a) freedom of conscience and religion)

If abortion is not made available then women, especially young women, can find themselves in the hands of illegal butchers. UK Department for International Development: "Unsafe abortion accounts for 13% of all maternal deaths and the hospitalization of a further five million women every year due to serious health complications".
And we all know where the US stands on this issue.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html