Former British Columbia premier and federal cabinet minister Ujjal Dosanjh wants a national licensing scheme for all places of worship and private schools in Canada, to ensure they don’t undermine Canadian values.
“We want to know what it is that’s being taught,” Dosanjh told the Senate national security committee Monday. “And if we believe that’s not in consonance with the need to build a caring and inclusive society – a fair society – then we can simply make the law that we won’t give them funds (or charitable status). Let’s starve them out.”
He later told reporters that experts would have to determine how such an oversight system would be administered without violating Charter rights.
“We do not only have an obligation, but we have a right to demand that we don’t teach killing for being offended, or something as silly as that,” said Dosanjh, who was attacked and seriously injured for speaking out against Sikh extremism after the 1985 Air India bombing.
Dosanjh’s testimony echoed the views of Ottawa resident Michelle Walrond, whose son, Luqman Abdunnur, was arrested in late 2014 as part of a national security investigation. She told the same committee in December she wants federal certification for religious preachers.
“In Canada, anybody can call themselves an imam,” she said. “And there’s nobody else that’s around that has the ability in the Muslim community … to say that’s not right.”
Dosanjh said Monday he fears Muslim extremism will be ignored by mainstream society, with dire consequences, as Sikh extremism eventually led to the Air India attack. The bombing of the 747 jumbo jet killed 329 people: 268 Canadian citizens, 27 Britons, and 24 Indians.
Ujjal Dosanjh calls for licensing of places of worship to ensure Canadian values | Ottawa Citizen
Typical liberal idea: "what harm can it do?" then we gotta explain exactly what harm it will do.
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