Elections Canada
Here is the updated list of questions to ask the federal candidates in your riding:
- Do you support the right to freedom from religion as well as the right to freedom of religion?
- Do you support secular governance, i.e. separation between religion and state?
- Do you support removing the phrase “the supremacy of God” from the preamble to the 1982 Canadian constitution?
- Do you support removing God from the national anthem?
- Do you support repealing Section 296 of the Criminal Code which makes “blasphemy” a crime?
- Do you support repealing paragraph 319(3)(b) of the Hate Propaganda provisions of the Criminal Code because it exempts religious discourse from prosecution, thus granting a dangerous privilege to religions, permitting them to make hateful statements with impunity?
- Do you support closing Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom?
- Do you oppose atheophobia, the anti-atheist prejudice that atheists have no morals or flawed morals or are morally inferior to those who believe in a god?
- Do you think that public servants, while on duty, have a duty to avoid promoting or favouring partisan political or religious views, both in their behaviour and in their appearance?
- Do you think that face-coverings should be banned for all public servants while on duty and for all persons while they are receiving a public service, including citizenship hearings?
- Do you think that theology faculties should be banned in all public universities and that no taxpayer funding should be provided to support any sectarian religious instruction?
- Do you support removing all government finances for pastoral interventions within Canada Corrections and the National Parole System?
- Do you accept the theory of evolution by natural selection as fact using the scientific definition of theory?