Thank you, Chair.
I want to posit a different notion than what was discussed earlier in regard to the inalienable right to religious freedom.
When you came into this building, on that tower that you came in under, you would have passed three scriptures:
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. Where there is no vision, the people perish. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea.
I think we have been the beneficiaries of.... Certainly our jurisprudence here in Canada has been a beneficiary of our faith background.
Those scriptures, by the way, Chair, are from the Torah as well as the Christian scriptures.
I firmly believe that when fighting for religious freedom.... If you have religious freedom, you have freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech. Many of what we call “inalienable” human rights fall out of that.
I'm wondering how you feel in that regard, and if I'm on the right track. Is that a motivation you have?