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November 7, 2017
Interfaith Letter Re Bill C-51
From Msgr. Frank Leo, Jr., General Secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB):
“Please find attached an interfaith letter signed by over 60 faith leaders and organizations in Canada. It is addressed to The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, concerning the removal of section 176 from the Criminal Code of Canada, as proposed under Clause 14 of Bill C-51 ‘An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act and to Make Consequential Amendments to Another Act.’
“As previously communicated, the interfaith letter was part of the Conference’s intervention on Bill C-51, which included a brief submitted to the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and an oral presentation before the Standing Committee by CCCB President Bishop Lionel Gendron, P.S.S., and His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, with the assistance of Mr. Bruce F. Simpson, a partner specialized in criminal law with Barnes Sammon LLP.
“The interfaith letter was co-authored by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and the Association for Reformed Political Action. Representatives from a variety of faith traditions have endorsed the letter, including from the Sikh, Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Buddhist traditions.”
Please click the following links to read the interfaith letter in French or in English. These letters are also posted on our diocesan Facebook and Twitter feeds. Please share freely.
To read more please visit the CCCB website
For your information, there has been a petition started. Please click on the following hyperlinks to view the applicable PDFs: Feedback is being received: http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/after-absolute-avalanche-of-emails-mps-vote-to-save-criminal-code-section-protecting-religious-services?platform=hootsuite