Canada, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, is still going in the same general direction as it was under Justin Trudeau . . . but a whole lot faster! We’ve seen that in his stated intention to run larger budget deficits and his attempt to hide that abuse of taxpayer money by dividing the deficit into “operational” and “capital” expenses.

We’ve seen it in the continuing effort to take firearms away from law-abiding hunters and sport shooters, while police officials and even the Minister of Public Safety admit that the mandatory gun confiscation program (affectionately known by Liberals as a “voluntary buy-back” program) will do nothing to make Canadians safer since most gun violence involves illegal handguns smuggled in from the USA.

We’ve seen it in the way the Liberal Government has talked about removing the tax-exempt status of churches and other charitable organizations (something MP Karina Gould now claims is “off the table”). Don’t believe her.

And we’ve seen it in the complete lack of interest shown by the Carney Government in investigation the 123 Christian church buildings burned or desecrated since the troubling and highly disputed stories about supposed (but unproven) burial sites at Kamloops and other residential school sites. The burning of churches certainly must constitute a real “hate crime”, but it has merited barely a mention by the Prime Minister or the taxpayer-subsidized national media.

Now, Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, takes aim at “symbols of hate”, a designation so vague that in the hands of Liberal politicians and judges, it’s conceivable that the Christian cross, long revered as a symbol of Christ’s death and resurrection, could be considered a hate symbol. Liberal politicians are doing their best to label parts of the Bible as “hate speech.” Once that accusation is accepted as true and repeated endlessly by the media, it’s a short step to actually banning the cross, the Bible and the Charter-protected rights of freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

On October 30, 2025, MP Marc Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights, came right out and stated publicly what leftist politicians and LGBT activists have been implying for years: the Bible is hateful and quoting scriptures in defence of actions, words or positions regarding gender issues should no longer be treated as a matter of religious freedom. “In Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Romans—there’s other passages—there’s clear hatred towards, for example, homosexuals,” Miller said.

MP Miller even claims to be a Christian but rejects the passages of scripture with which he disagrees. This is nothing new; revisionist, “wishful thinking” folks who want to twist the Bible to suit their personal tastes . . . to make it more convenient, more comfortable for their own lifestyles have been around for a long time. The issue here is that an elected Member of Parliament, a representative of the governing Liberal Party should imply that quoting the Bible may itself constitute a hateful act, worthy of prosecution.

That brings us back to Bill C-9, which has already passed 2^nd Reading in the House. Bill C-9 purports—deceptively—to “protect access to places of religious worship.” That sounds good on the surface. Dig a little deeper. By adding “places used by an identifiable group for certain purposes”, it allows the possibility that citizens peacefully protesting a “drag queen story hour”—for example—could be accused of a hate crime if definitions are stretched, as they undoubtedly will be.

There’s also a distinct possibility that “symbols of hate”, generally understood to be things like the Nazi swastika, could be stretched to include the Christian cross. The incessant use of epithets like, “homophobic, racist, misogynistic”, by leftist politicians and their bought-and-paid-for media is having an effect on the general public. The shameful use of the public schools and taxpayer-subsidized colleges and universities to carry that same message has prepared a generation to accept egregious restrictions on free speech as necessary for the common good.

The Free Speech Union has a good article on Bill C-9 and accurately spells out that punishment for offences committed under its provisions could include up to life imprisonment. The Carney brownshirts that misguided voters have allowed to control Parliament are not playing around. They are moving to create as many restrictions as possible on what remains of our Parliamentary democracy. Please write to your MPs and ask them—no matter to which party they belong—to vote against Bill C-9.

The Christian Heritage Party staunchly defends your right to free speech and freedom of worship. The “supremacy of God” referenced in our Charter means that God and His Word are supreme above the laws and opinions of men . . . including politicians and Supreme Court Justices. Each of us will stand before Him one day. Let us do so with a clean conscience, knowing that we have not compromised our convictions for the fear of public opinion.