The Canadian Council of Churches is a full consensus organization, so that means when the Canadian Council of Churches makes a public statement it needs to be agreed to by all the members of the council. Given the time available we weren't able to come to a conclusion or a consensus on where that would be. In the time that we did, it wasn't clear that folks went one way or the other.
There are definitely strong arguments among members of the council that would be broadly shared with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and there are others who are wondering whether it would be good to do the research to see whether or not other provisions of the Criminal Code would cover what's already there, but not with sufficient time to do it.
That's why we didn't make a recommendation one way or the other, but should the government retain them, then there are a couple of recommendations for action.