With the federal election days away, and the spotlight on the current government’s accomplishments and follies, an unprecedented initiative of Prime Minister Stephen Harper comes to mind: the Office of Religious Freedom (ORF), which was announced in February 2013 at Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Toronto. Deemed a positive step forward for democracy, the ORF was established as a response to “the wishes of Canadians to stem the persecution, violence and repression directed against many religious communities around the world.”
If a Conservative government is re-elected, Prime Minister Harper has promised to provide additional support to the ORF to the tune of …read more
Source: Canadian International Council