Canada: Christians urged to engage
Luke Randall
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has called on Canadian Christians to fully engage with the political process ahead of the national federal election, describing voting as a “privilege and responsibility”.
The upcoming election, called by newly elected Liberal Party leader and prime minister Mark Carney and due to be held on 28 April, will be the first contest the liberals have faced without former prime minister Justin Trudeau at the helm in ten years, and Carney’s party is neck and neck with the Conservatives in the polls.
Churches face 'devastating' taxes in Canada
Luke Randall
Christian charities across Canada could be faced with “devastating” consequences if never-seen-before recommendations to end religious privilege exemptions are implemented. The proposal is the latest in an extensive list of liberal policies adopted by the North American country in recent times.
Each year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance compiles a report ahead of the annual budget announcement and has this year called for the removal of charitable status from anti-abortion organisations and for national income tax laws to be amended to remove charitable status from organisations which primarily exist to “advance religion,” which could see churches targeted.
Canada could arrest people before crime committed
Legislation being proposed by the Canadian government is potentially ‘fascist’, psychologist and author Jordan Peterson is warning.
Writing in the UK’s Telegraph online, he declares: ‘New legislation proposed by the government mandates the generation of a soon-to-be giant bureaucracy to monitor and punish in an extra-judicial manner so-called “crimes of hate”, soon [to be] defined as any speech or act that the bureaucrats and corporations in charge of the definition themselves object to.
