The state of religious liberty is a good indicator of whether citizens are actually governing themselves. John von Heyking delves into the state of both 25 years after a key Supreme Court of Canada judgment….

Harper’s decision to request prorogation has proven controversial because his critics (some of them sympathetic to his political program) believe he is abusing his executive power over Parliament. Harper’s defenders point out that there is nothing unconstitutional about prorogation and that Parliament’s current dysfunction justifies it.

Combining philosophical, literary, and historical analysis, social science, and personal anecdote, Cooper analyzes the “logic” of the Canadian “regime.”

Recently in Canada, the claim that religious arguments have no place in public debate has been used to deny the legitimacy of religious arguments to oppose the inclusion of gay-friendly books in elementary school libraries, to suspect religious political candidates of harbouring a “hidden agenda,” in opposing abortion, and to prohibit home-school parents from using religious materials as part of their children’s education.