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Canada's Office of Religious Freedom
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Former ambassador: Trudeau’s de-emphasis on religion in foreign policy leaves Canada with ‘blind spot’ (Steve Weatherbe, Life Site News)
Conservative efforts to promote religious freedom tainted by politics: Audit (Stephanie Levitz, Huffington Post Canada)
Canada: Religious freedom office replaced with new 'office of human rights' (CBC News)
Liberals’ replacement for Office of Religious Freedom will promote broader range of rights (Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa Citizen)
Bussey Interviewed about the Office of Religious Freedom (Blog: Intersection, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)
Why Canada should keep its religious freedom office (Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett, The Globe and Mail)
Liberals to close Office of Religious Freedom, Dion says (Michelle Zilio, The Globe and Mail)
Mr. Trudeau, prove us wrong (Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)
Conservative motion to save religious freedoms office fails to pass Commons (Stephanie Levitz, Global News)
Canada’s religious freedom ambassador joins Christian think tank (Michelle Zilio, The Globe and Mail)
Canada, diplomacy and religious freedom: Canadians argue over how to promote religious freedom abroad (M.D. and Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Chris Selley: Liberals right to resist urge to axe Office of Religious Freedom — even if Harper created it (Chris Selley, National Post)
The case for the Office of Religious Freedom (Barry Bussey, National Post)
Religious freedom ambassador gets temporary reprieve as Liberals mull future of the office Conservatives built (Lee Berthiaume, National Post)
Trudeau accused of ‘radical secularism’ over apparent plan to shutter religious freedom office (Steve Weatherbe, Lifesite)
Brian Grim briefs Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau on religious freedom at Davos (Brian Grim, Religious Freedom and Business Foundation)
Dion suggests end is nigh for office of religious freedom (Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa Citizen)
CIJA and Interfaith Partners Reaffirm Support for Office of Religious Freedom (Press Release, CIJA)
Faith groups call on Liberals to keep Canada's Office of Religious Freedom (Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa Citizen)
Religious freedom office faces uncertain future as Liberals consider wider human-rights proposals (Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa Citizen)
Advocates fear fate of religious freedom office under Liberals (Deborah Gyapong, The Catholic Register)
As Tony Blair addresses Canadian office of religious freedom, 10 Pew Research datapoints on display (Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Canada's religious freedom office in place (Baptist Press)
Globe and Mail: New religious-freedom watchdog faces uphill battle (Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail)
Religious freedom under global threat, Canadian ambassador says (Mark Kellner, Adventist Review, Adventist News Network)
Ambassador Bennett visits Washington (Flickr)
Address by Ambassador Andrew Bennett at Religious Liberty Dinner (International Religious Liberty Association)
Ask the Religion Experts: What do you think is the most pressing issue facing Canada’s ambassador to the Office of Religious Freedom? (Ottawa Citizen)
Office of Religious Freedom will assist businesses (Jim Wallace and Richelle Wiseman, Calgary Herald)
Canadian Religious Freedom Officer scheduled to visit forbidden countries (International Business Times)
Canada religious freedom office to focus on persecutions abroad (Deborah Gyapong, Catholic Register)
Founded in Christianity, can Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom be fair to all? (Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun)
Comment: An Ambassador of Freedom FROM religion? (Andre Carrel, The Rossland Telegraph)
Give religious freedom ambassador Bennett a chance (Michael den Tandt, The Vancouver Sun)
Call to help Tibetans puts pressure on Canada’s new religion envoy (Campbell Clark, The Globe and Mail)
Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom should tread carefully in Tibet (The Globe and Mail)
New Office of Religious Freedom opens Pandora’s Box (Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun)
Canada: Religious-freedom ambassador will face challenges from his own department (Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail)
Canada’s new religious freedom ambassador says he’ll give a louder voice to homegrown values in a ‘noisy world’ (Joseph Brean, National Post)
Academics split on Canada's religious freedom ambassador (Louise Elliott, CBC News)
Activists laud Canada's office of religious freedom (New Tang Dynasty Television)
Scholar Andrew Bennett to lead Canada's Office of Religious Freedom (CTV News)
Canada to champion religious liberty globally with new religious freedom office (Daniel Proussalidis, CNews)