"My Canada Includes Christians!"
A new bill before the Canadian parliament right now effectively criminalizes any public expression of the Christian faith in Canada. Will it?
“We must obey God rather than any human authority.” Acts 5:29 (NLT)
At a Global Fund conference in 2016 in Montreal, Canada, the frontman for 1980’s pop group U2 and celebrity globalist activist Bono, declared, “The world needs more Canada.”
The idea of the catchy but cringeworthy exhortation is that Canada—its society and culture, and the direction they’re taking under the imposition of a radicalized ideology promoted by its current political authority—is a model for the rest of the world some people seem to think is worthy of universal emulation.
Under the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, the country has indeed been one to which the attention of the world has often turned over the last 8 years.
Sadly and invariably, it’s been for all the wrong reasons.
In that time and under the government of that party, Canada’s indeed become a global leader.
If you’re interested in a comprehensive list and description of all the ways in which Canada’s recently become a global leader for all those wrong reasons, you can read about it here.
For now, here’s just a sample platter of some of what we’re being told the world needs more of.
“I just died in your arms tonight!”
You may recall that just about exactly a year ago, we examined the alarming advent and meteoric rise of medically-assisted suicide in Canada: aggressively promoted, marketed and delivered by the Liberal government.
It’s taken off and continues to quietly trend like the latest corn chip or condom flavor nobody in the communications-industrial-complex wants to talk about too much; so that Canada’s become a global leader in the number of people who are turning to the government to end their life for them.
“Where have all the good times gone?”
According to the Organization for Global Economic Development (OECD), as a result of the policies of the current governing party, Canada’s earned the honor of having the worst economic growth and standard of living in the developed world. It’s one of the few countries in the world that hasn’t recovered its pre-pandemic socio-economic levels, and is projected to have the worst real GDP per capita growth in the developed world until at least 2060.
“Burn, baby, burn!”
In the last couple of years, the phenomenon of the “wildfire” has become a powerful go-to strategy of the globalist forces determined to drive the world into their waiting arms with the climate alarmism performance art with which they’re endeavoring to terrify us all into simply acceding to globalist world rule as the planet’s and humanity’s “only salvation” from the nasty weather they histrionically insist is about to kill us all.
Canada had its worst-ever year on record in 2023 for wildfires in both area covered as well as destruction and damage caused. But the accolades don’t end there. According to the European Union’s Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service, the wildfires that raged across the country last year produced nearly one-quarter (23%) of the entire world’s wildfire carbon emissions, making Canada the world leader in that category.
“The church… the church… the church is on fire!”
In the summer of 2021, baseless accusations—to this date uncorroborated by a single shred of empirical evidence—were made by the Liberal government (and reinforced by its government-financed, media-activist-complex) against the Catholic Church regarding the “discovery” of “unmarked graves” “in the vicinity” of some churches where residential schools for native children were run. Since then and as a direct result of the vague and unsubstantiated accusations reminiscent of an E. Jean Carroll fantasy, somewhere around 100 churches in Canada have been completely destroyed by arson or seriously damaged by vandalism, without anybody even batting an eye over it, making Canada a world leader in that category as well.
“I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill, and I’m sittin’ here on Parliament Hill!”
That finally segues into what we’re going to explore today, as the news that was fired across my social-media timeline bow this past week informs us Canada’s once again taking the world lead: this time, in being one of (if not actually the first) places in the Western world that’s about to criminalize any public expression of the Christian faith.
An article on the Campaign of Life Coalition’s blog from Feb. 19 tells us about a bill before Canada’s parliament that proposes to classify public expressions of the Christian faith as “hate speech” that’ll warrant criminal prosecution.
Should Canadian Christians—and for that matter, in the US and elsewhere—be concerned?
Bill C-367 was tabled by Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, national head of the party of chronic French-Canadian discontent and national disruption. “If the Trudeau Liberals support this bill, it will most certainly pass, striking a fatal blow against freedom of religion and freedom of expression in this Dominion,” the blog’s author, David Cooke, says.
As of now and apparently for the time being only—despite what the radically oppressive, christophobic Canadian social reality promoted and encouraged by the political ideology of the governing authority and its activist allies, shows to the contrary—the Canadian Criminal Code’s Section 319 states:
“No person shall be convicted of a [hate crime] offence… if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”
In other words, until now, Canadian criminal law has protected speech expressed according to faith-based principles and motivations, as a legal part of legally recognized free speech.
So that, according to Cooke’s blog post,
“...if you are saying what the Bible says about sexuality, gender, marriage, family, or anything—no matter how unpopular, offensive, or ‘hateful’ it might sound to someone else, you have the freedom to express yourself under Canadian law.”
The covert insidiousness of Bill C-367, however, is in the fact that the proposed legislation will remove that protection when it eliminates the legal provision for it in Section 319 from the Criminal Code.
In other words, under the new law, with the protection provided by Section 319 of the Criminal Code taken out, anything anybody publicly says about anything that anybody from a radicalized, woke, progressive, leftist perspective may decide to find offensive, can legally be classified as “hate speech,” and now be subject to criminal prosecution.
It’s no conspiracy theorizing, but the product of simple correlative deduction, to conclude this bill is a direct attempt by the political elite to eliminate any expression of public opposition (with the threat of criminal prosecution of it) to their draconian imposition of a radicalized, woke, progressive, leftist agenda; an agenda that a majority of the population wants nothing to do with because of its demonstrable injustice, immorality and the outright insanity we can see it engendering practically everywhere we look; but that the socio-political elites are aggressively and desperately pushing through the legislative process, to mollify the minority composed of society’s crême de la crême and the mignions they rally around their rabidly misanthropic causes, and who provide the wildly unpopular political authorities in power with the semblance of public support the government-financed media can manufacture into and promote as a universal reality.
Under the law, not just Christians, but anybody who speaks out publicly in any way against radicalized gender ideology, gay marriage, sexually-explicit drag queen strip-tease and sex-simulation for children, child drag or the child sex change industry, and “offends” anybody else and not just the openly LGBTQ, will now be subject to criminal prosecution for doing so.
As if that weren’t Stalinist enough, that’s not even the end of it, as Cooke points out.
Because the law permits the offense to be defined by the offended, such deliberately nebulous parameters wide-open for liberal application, specifically give those in rabid opposition to the Christian faith (which happens to be the position of the very elites in power proposing the law, along with their activist allies and followers), the opportunity and the means by which to manifest their motive to eliminate the Christian faith they hate from all public discourse and visibility.
So that, as Cooke writes,
“Christians may possibly be charged for claiming that Jesus is ‘the way, the truth, and the life’ (John 14:6), because it discriminates against other religions. In fact, to criticize the teachings and practices of other religions may be tantamount to a ‘hate crime’!”
Or, somebody with technicolor hair and pronouns attached to their gender fluid identity may decide the church down the street is an affront to them, and can demand it either be shut down on the basis of being a promotion of “hate speech,” or file criminal charges against the church leadership. Or both.
Cooke highlights one final point salient to an honest assessment of the proposed law’s legal, moral and ethical validity.
“The ostensible reason for Bill C-367 is the recent rise in antisemitic demonstrations in Canada. Some politicians would claim extremists are being allowed to call for the annihilation of the Jews because our Criminal Code protects religious speech, so religious speech must be silenced. But, really, this is just an excuse for an opportunistic attack on the religious freedom of Christians (and other faiths too).
“But is the answer to antisemitic rhetoric in Canada the elimination of everyone’s religious freedom? Rather, if the government truly believes that someone is advocating or promoting the annihilation of Jews, should it not enforce existing laws which already make that illegal? It is already illegal to advocate genocide according to Section 318 of the Criminal Code!”
Cooke’s right to ask these questions; because if violent extremists calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people is the problem, there’s already a law that exists to deal with that. If the whole rationale for Bill C-367 really is to battle that kind of hateful speech, how does eliminating protection for all religious freedom of expression remedy the situation?
The answer is, it doesn’t.
What it does do is to disingenuously and completely falsely equate all religious expression with the violent extremism of a specific sect of a particular religious group that produces actual “hate speech;” then removes the legal protection for that speech previously provided in the Criminal Code under Section 319; which then removes all legal protection for all free religious expression; which then makes all religious speech subject to criminal prosecution based on its potential to offend whomever wants to be offended by it; which then makes it possible under legal empowerment and protection, to discriminate against, persecute and socially terrorize people with religious and faith convictions into silence with the threat of criminal prosecution for simply publicly expressing their religion or faith.
See how neatly that works?
And if this bill is passed by Canada’s parliament, that’s exactly how neatly it will work.
Now, the bill hasn’t passed yet; but there’s absolutely no reason to believe it won’t; because the party’s leader who brought it forth—along with the minority-government Liberals and the New Democrat Party—all form the progressive-leftist coalition opposing the Conservative party that comprises the largest single voting bloc in Canada’s parliament, and whose legislative power is only kept at bay by that coalition.
And if the bill is passed into law, it’ll be a perpetual “Open Season!” on Canada’s Christians.
We’ve been treated over the last several years to the spectacle of just how enthusiastically radicalized leftist-progressive extremists in government and in the activist industry apply and employ pretzel lawfare to twist legality into a weapon with which to destroy their political and ideological opposition and eliminate it as an obstacle by removing it from any access to power, authority, influence and even public visibility.
And for these radicalized leftist-progressive extremists in government and in the activist industry, there’s no one they hate with no greater passion, than the Lord Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah, and the Christians who follow in his faith.
So the natural assumption has to be, if we thought we were seeing some unjust applications of the law for some politically nefarious purposes up until now, with this, we really may “ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.”
But, Christians have to remember the Lord we love, serve, trust and obey, warns us this would be the case. He warns us the closer we get to the time of his return to judge the world with his righteous wrath for its enthusiastic sinfulness, disobedience and wickedness, our persecution by the unbelieving world will increase because of its hatred of him and us.
John 15:18-25: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you... If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also... They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’”
But, he also reassures us if we endure whatever we may have to face faithfully, obediently and boldly, with confidence trusting in him, in his power and in the salvation he guarantees us not just with his promise, but with the finished work that seals it with his blood... we may have to suffer, but we won’t have anything of which to be afraid.
Matthew 10:22: “You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.”
Luke 21:16-19: “You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. Everyone will hate you because of me. But not a hair of your head will perish. Stand firm, and you will win life.”
We Christians had better all start getting our individual and collective “stuff” together, and fast. Because if what’s going down with all this is what’s going down, it’s going to start getting to be an ugly, rough and painful ride for many of us. We’re going to need each other to help one another get through it, and we won’t be able to if we’re too busy ignoring our obedience to the Lord’s command to love one another (John 13:34), while we’re simultaneously stabbing each other in the back and—trying to be likable to it by betraying our faithfulness to God’s word and obedience to his commands—sucking up to an unbelieving world that hates us and wants to kill us.
This bill may pass; and if it does, that’s where we’re headed.
If it doesn’t, we may still get a reprieve for a time, but it won’t be a very long one.
In any case, it looks like we may very well be about to start finding who the real Christians among us really are.
(Photo credits: ChurchMD.com; American Broadcasting Company; ChristianDiscipleshipIntl.org)
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