Atheism is not a religion to the extreme right.
Tories promise to create office for religious freedom draws skepticism
The Conservative campaign platform has injected religion into Canadian foreign policy.
The Tory platform, unveiled Friday, calls for the creation of special office of “Religious Freedom” within the Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa.
The function of the new office would be to “monitor religious freedom around the world, to promote religious freedom as a key objective of Canadian foreign policy.”
The new office would ensure that Canada protects “vulnerable religious minorities” abroad and would target them in refugee resettlement, or other programs through the Canadian International Development Agency.
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