The Second Coming

Abstract

Social welfare has increasingly been downloaded to community and faith-based organizations (FBOs). Many FBOs adhere to religious fundamentalist views that challenge the rights of equalityseeking groups and conflict with international human rights laws and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Regulations or policies governing how FBOs provide public services are lacking or nonexistent. This article explores guidelines emanating from court decisions on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms' interpretation of religious freedom and provides a framework through which governments may develop policy governing the delivery of faith-based public services in a manner consistent with equality rights.

Anti-Violence Efforts in Canadian Schools:

“…Faith-based organizations 2 with different religious and/or spiritual affiliations, are included in this number, and seem to be reestablishing themselves in public service delivery in Canada (e.g. Watkinson, 2015). There are organizations with varying mandates, funding, policy work and programming that relate to violence.…”