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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Sep 23, 2006 01:51pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Media | Newspaper - Toronto Globe and Mail |
| News Date | Saturday, September 23, 2006 07:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | On Sept. 14, the Rev. Cheri DiNovo, a United Church minister running for the NDP, handily won a provincial by-election to fill Gerard Kennedy's vacant Toronto seat. Six days earlier, the federal NDP introduced its new Faith and Social Justice caucus with a speech by MP Bill Blaikie, who was, before he was elected to Parliament in 1979, also a United Church minister.
And three weeks earlier, Nora Sanders submitted her resignation as Saskatchewan's NDP Deputy Minister of First Nations and Métis Relations to take up a position as the new General Secretary of the United Church of Canada. She submitted it to Premier Lorne Calvert, himself a United Church minister.
With all the recent talk of the religious right hanging out their crosses on Parliament Hill, it's easy to forget that they are just replacing a slightly folksier set that has been around for decades.
As Arthur Sheps, a University of Toronto professor and specialist in religion in Canadian politics, points out, there's a long history of faith dictating policy. "Does religion have a place in politics?" he asks. "It always has had one. Politics is driven by conscience, and for a lot of people that means religion. |
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