Addressing religious freedom issues in the West, especially trends in Canada. “One of the reasons for forbidding government discrimination on matters such as religion is precisely so that private institutions will be able to discriminate, appropriately and justly, according to their own particular beliefs as to what supports their distinctive mission. Governmental neutrality is intended to be a foundation for a lively and diverse societal pluralism, not for society to become a mirror of the government itself.

I lived in Canada for many years (longer than any other country) and am fascinated by its particular features, and deeply worried by the growth of intolerant secularism there. Most of my articles on Canada are from pre-internet days so cannot easily be accessed. Here is a very small selection of some pieces that are […]