If you haven’t read the booklet “The Biblical Legacy of Canada’s Parliament Buildings” produced by WWW.CHRISTIANGOVERNANCE.COM, you should! Timothy Bloedow and his team obviously carefully researched the matter and wrote an unbiased account based on historical records.

For instance, one of the concluding remarks in this booklet that I found particularly interesting references the building of the Peace Tower and the intended Scriptural carvings that were to go on it. It reads:

“It is important to note that politicians did not commission these carvings and Scripture references, so they did not necessarily reflect the thinking of the government of the day. There’s a nostalgic desire by many Christians to look back to the day when Canada was governed Christianly by God-fearing men who wanted to leave a legacy of consistent Christian governance. The historical record does not bear this out. And it certainly wasn’t the case 50 years after Confederation when the current Parliament Buildings were rebuilt. This was during the Prime Ministership of William Lyon Mackenzie King, who was spiritually eccentric, and not a Christian…

The Christian engravings on the Parliament Buildings and the Peace Tower, however, must be attributed to the chief architect, John A. Pearson. After the engravings on the outside of the Peace Tower were unveiled, there was some discussion in Parliament about removing them, but the providence of God trumped the will of non-Christian men…”

To prove his point, Timothy Bloedow gives the actual relevant transcripts on that matter from the May 27^th, 1921, House of Commons Hansard, the official transcript of debates.

After the transcripts, Timothy concluded with: “As you can see, the inscriptions on the Peace Tower did not originate from the will of our politicians. On the contrary, they were prepared to see them removed. But God used the vision of an architect and the inertia of civil government in His Providence to ensure that these Bible passages would be inscribed in such a visible public place, at our seat of national government. What we do have is the finger of God – the Word of God – carved into the architecture of the buildings which symbolizes our national government, notwithstanding the political fancy of the day, and regardless of the particular convictions of the governments and political leaders who come and go.”

I am also confident that there were men in the Parliament of that day who did support the Scriptural engravings. Were there enough? Maybe not, but regardless of the open defiance of the parliamentarians then, as it is with our parliamentarians today, when God decides to have His way in a matter, He will.

It cannot be suggested that those Scriptural references that adorn the inside and outside of our parliament buildings were meant to force a particular religion on the nation’s people. No. There is a big difference between a people practicing a religion and a people adopting the principles of an ideology.  Canada, as with all the great democracies in the world, adopted the fair principles of the Judeo/Christian worldview, which guarantees freedom of religion and equality for all under the law. Such freedoms do not exist in countries dominated by worldviews such as radical Islam, which brutally persecutes adherents of any other faith, or secular atheism which insists on the removal of God from any public discourse.

In the same way, the Christian Heritage Party is not pushing any religion. Rather, like the Peace Tower, CHP Canada has engraved into its policies the fair principles of the Judeo/Christian worldview; principles which alone afford nations the greatest democratic freedoms in the world.

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