Vice President-elect JD Vance has sided with Conservative MP Jamil Jivani in calling for additional protections for Christians in Canada.
Vance claimed that Christians are the most persecuted religious group worldwide.
“Jamil is speaking the truth. Shame on journalists who refuse to see what’s obvious,” said Vance.
The VP-elect highlighted that Canada has faced a series of church burnings in recent years “thanks to anti-Christian bigotry.”
The most liked comment on Vance’s post came from True North’s Cosmin Dzssurdzsa.
“112 burnt and vandalized to be exact and two parishioners dead in a church fire in Winnipeg this year. All because the dishonest legacy media fabricated a lie that mass graves were discovered at former residential schools. They have blood on their hands,” he said.
The reply was accompanied by True North’s exclusive, which catalogues each of the Christian churches that have been vandalized, burned down, or desecrated since the misleading announcement that mass graves were discovered at residential schools in Kamloops, BC and other areas.
The announcements resulted from ground-penetrating radar readings that revealed soil anomalies. No human remains have since been discovered.
Jivani launched a national initiative called “Protect Christians Canada.” The initiative follows a petition which calls on the government to take action to protect Christians in Canada. The petition was authored by Christians in Durham, Ontario, a region Jivani represents in Parliament. He will present the petition in Feb. 2025.
“This is about whether Christians have the freedom in Canada to live according to their own traditions and practice their own faith,” said Jivani.
The campaign aims to strengthen penalties and to increase law enforcement to respond to crimes targeting places of worship. It also calls to protect conscience rights and freedom of religion for workers and defend the rights of parents in their children’s education. The campaign aims to protect the legal status and freedom of expression of Christian charities, too.
Some municipalities have already begun pushing to enhance the rights of Christians.
Mississauga raised a Christian Heritage Month banner over the city for the first time at the start of Dec.
Based on 2021 census data, 49.9% of the city’s residents identified as Christian.
Over half of the country’s population (53.3%) identified as Christian in 2021. This decreased from 67.3% in 2011 to 77.1% in 2001.
According to Christianheritagemonth.ca, 36 municipalities and one province have officially declared Dec. as Christian Heritage Month in the country. 31 of the 37 locations have official proclamations posted to the website.
Saskatchewan was not among them. The province’s addition followed the Western Standard rumouring that Saskatchewan would make the announcement official on Dec. 4.
True North reached out to various Saskatchewan ministries, but none could confirm the announcement.