Letter to the Editor
Editor, the following letter has been sent to Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP, Larry Miller
Larry,
In the last year on at least two occasions you have revealed to your constituents that you are not a strong proponent of Canada’s laws on religious freedom or our charter of rights and freedoms. Surely you know that religious freedoms and human rights are protections for minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
If we, as a society, believe in these things and promote religious freedoms as Harper is sometimes wont to do, then we must accept that sometimes we must tolerate elements that we are not comfortable with. It comes with the territory.
The alternative is to live under an intolerant, government mandated, belief system. Surely you don’t expect us to support you in such a policy!
These thoughts of yours were deliberate and they convince me that you do not represent the values of the majority of Canadians in your constituency.
The two occasions I reference are noted below.
Tory MP Larry Miller on women wearing niqabs at citizenship ceremonies: ‘Stay the hell where you came from’
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/17/tory-mp-larry-miller-on-women-wearing-niqab-at-citizenship-ceremonies-stay-the-hell-where-you-came-from/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
‘‘Secondly, I’m all for rights and freedoms but the Charter complicates things. Pierre Trudeau did this wilfully and deliberately, taking rights away from the majority to protect the minority. The Charter of Rights puts all the lawmaking decisions into the hands of the Supreme Court and to me, that is not what democracy is about.”
Dave MacDougall, Meaford
