{"id":27202,"date":"2018-03-01T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=27202"},"modified":"2022-04-13T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:28:10","slug":"urgent-watch-live-now-debate-at-the-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2018\/03\/01\/urgent-watch-live-now-debate-at-the-house-of-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT: Watch Live Now Debate at the House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 14 of 30 in the series Canada Summer Jobs<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The House of Commons has opened up today with a debate about Canada Summer Jobs program’s controversial attestation requirement.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The uproar over the Canada Summer Jobs program has exposed a government blind spot.\u00a0 It does not understand nor \u00a0\u00a0listen to the concerns of religious communities. We have watched with dismay as the government has demanded that religious groups accept their party\u2019s position on Charter \u201cvalues\u201d in order to receive grants for hiring summer students. We have pointed out that the government has been overbroad in their interpretation of \u201cother rights,\u201d such as abortion, yet under-inclusive in their recognition of religious freedoms. Clearly, the government\u2019s support for diversity only extends to those who agree with the governing party\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n

In response to opposition, the government issued \u201cSupplementary Information\u201d which only intensified the confusion. As a result, many religious charities submitted their applications with a note affirming that they respect the current state of the law toward religion. However, those forms were rejected as \u201cincomplete.\u201d Evidently, the only \u201ccomplete\u201d application is one that harmonizes with the government\u2019s viewpoint.<\/p>\n

WATCH THE DEBATE LIVE:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 14 of 30 in the series Canada Summer Jobs<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The House of Commons has opened up today with a debate about Canada Summer Jobs program’s controversial attestation requirement. The uproar over the Canada Summer Jobs program has exposed a government blind spot.\u00a0 It does not understand nor \u00a0\u00a0listen to the concerns of religious communities. We have watched with dismay… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"series":[364],"class_list":["post-27202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","series-canada-summer-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27202"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=27202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}