Seems like an avenue of judgement on the nation by persecuting God’s children. Well, Canada was already a place to escape as many have, but it seems even more will do so. Perhaps that’s the play, incentivize real Christians to leave so they can use the Muslims to control the rest, and embrace the Muslim Mahdi, Islamic Messiah or Christian Antichrist, soon to arrive on the world scene. A lot of Canadian far left liberals are probably fine with silencing Christians for pointing out their many sins. And notice how they’re following the selective persecution like in the UK, another crown property, which doesn’t bode well for New Zealand or Australia either.
https://rairfoundation.com/canadas-hate-bill-exposed-pastors-mps-warn-bill/
By Vlad Tepes
Hundreds rallied on Parliament Hill to warn that Canada’s Bill C-9, after stripping long-standing religious protections from the law, could criminalize biblical speech and usher in a new era of state-enforced thought control.
Hundreds of concerned Canadians braved the freezing cold on Parliament Hill on March 12, 2026, to rally against Bill C-9, the deceptively titled “Combatting Hate Act”—legislation critics warn could criminalize biblical speech and dismantle long-standing protections for religious freedom.
Organized by ARPA Canada, the demonstration featured powerful speeches from pastors, political leaders, Conservative MPs, and civil liberties advocates, all sounding the alarm that Canada is approaching a dangerous turning point.
Critics warn that Bill C-9, after removing a decades-old religious protection from Canada’s Criminal Code, could expose pastors, religious leaders, and ordinary citizens to prosecution for expressing biblical or biological views on sexuality.
At the center of the controversy is the bill’s most alarming change: the deliberate removal—through a Liberal-Bloc alliance at committee on March 11—of the long-standing “good faith” religious defense in Criminal Code s. 319(3)(b).
For decades, this safeguard protected sincere religious expression from prosecution for “hate speech”, even when those views offended prevailing cultural norms. Its removal collapses a critical constitutional firewall and opens the door to politically motivated prosecutions of pastors, rabbis, religious leaders, teachers, parents, and ordinary citizens who refuse to affirm state-mandated gender ideology or other government-approved narratives.
Speakers at the rally made the stakes unmistakably clear: this debate is not about “balancing rights.” It is about whether Canada will remain a country where citizens can speak biological and theological truths without fear of state punishment—or descend into a regime where government authorities determine which scriptures, facts, and moral convictions are deemed “hateful.”
Participants also warned that existing hate-speech laws already demonstrate troubling selective enforcement. While violent hatred—such as protests targeting Jewish communities, chants of “Death to Jews” and “Death to Zionists” from a Montreal imam, or attacks on synagogues and churches—often goes unpunished, expressing basic biological realities or traditional religious teachings increasingly invites fines, professional ruin, and prolonged legal battles.
Recent cases illustrate the trend. In February 2026, former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld was ordered to pay $750,000 for publicly affirming that there are only two biological sexes. Meanwhile, Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen continues to face prosecution in Finland simply for quoting the Bible on marriage and sexuality.
These cases demonstrate what critics increasingly describe as state-narrative enforcement—a system where dissent from ideological orthodoxy is punished while genuine threats or acts of hatred are ignored.
Another striking example occurred in July 2025, when the City of Montreal fined Ministerios Restauración Church $2,500 for hosting American Christian worship leader Sean Feucht inside its sanctuary. The official justification was a missing “concert permit,” but critics note that Feucht had openly criticized gender ideology and abortion and expressed support for President Donald Trump. Protesters even threw smoke bombs inside the church during the event, yet authorities penalized the church rather than the disruptors.
RAIR Foundation attended and filmed the March 12 demonstration against Bill C-9. Below are the most powerful speeches from pastors, MPs, lawyers, and activists who warn that Canada now stands at a historic crossroads.
Christine Van Geyn (Interim Executive Director, Canadian Constitution Foundation) delivered the civil-liberties demolition: the bill must be withdrawn entirely. Removing the religious defense risks criminalizing prayer, preaching, and moral debate across faiths. Even inflammatory prayers investigated but not charged under the current law do not justify dismantling safeguards for millions. “If the state begins parsing Psalms line by line, we have forgotten why the Charter exists.” Limits on speech never retreat; they expand. Today it’s fringe figures; tomorrow it’s mainstream believers.
Rod Taylor (National Leader, Christian Heritage Party) pulled no punches: “Bill C-9 is one of the most insidious pieces of legislation that has ever darkened our door.” Its deceptive title hides the intent to silence Christians, pro-lifers, and traditionalists. Real hate, such as chants of “Death to Jews,” synagogue shootings, church burnings, goes unpunished, while saying “there are two genders” or “God created male and female” becomes prosecutable. He invoked martyrs from St. Stephen to Päivi Räsänen and Barry Neufeld (fined $750,000 for stating biological reality). Taylor demanded that the religious-exemption amendment, as well as the entire bill, must be defeated: “This is the end of free speech and civilization as we know it.”
Reverend Joel Dykstra, pastor of Wellandport United Reformed Church, opened with a pastoral perspective. He affirmed concern over racism and mistreatment but insisted true justice addresses the heart through the gospel, not government overreach.
He warned against portraying Scripture as a source of hate: “When scripture is portrayed by our government as a source of hate, when its defenders are treated as suspect, the result is not justice, but confusion and harm.” Drawing from Genesis, he reminded listeners of the ancient enmity between truth and opposition to God, yet declared confidence: “I’m not afraid, because Jesus reigns.”
Conservative MPs Jacob Mantle and Andrew Lawton represented the parliamentary resistance. Mantle held up a Bible, “a book so dangerous the government wants to criminalize its utterance,” and pointed to Parliament’s own stones carved with Scripture. “How can a nation carved from biblical truths now seek to criminalize those truths?” Lawton condemned real hate crimes ignored by the former Trudeau government, such as when Justin Trudeau called over a hundred arson attacks against Christian Churches, “understandable”. And now the Liberals target people of faith for holding beliefs. encoded in the Bible itself. “We will never stop fighting for freedom of expression.”
Paul Lawton (ARPA Canada Grassroots Director) closed with a call to action: Christians must obey God rather than men. Truth-speaking about sexuality and sin is not hate; it is love for neighbor and fidelity to the Ninth Commandment.
“A nation that punishes truth will not remain free for long.”
He has already reported over 115,000 calls to MPs; the goal is 200,000. Every reader should act now.
This urgency is not hyperbole. Bill C-9 arrives under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals, whose technocratic vision (as Peter Foster documented in the National Post) treats dissent as an obstacle to the grand “reset.”
According to Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, even as he writes it in his own book, Values: Crises are opportunities; capitalism and traditional morality are morally corrupt; opposition must be marginalized or silenced.
Labeling inconvenient truths “hate” provides the perfect legal mechanism. The timeline is brutal: debate closed March 10, committee rammed it through March 11, report stage and third reading loom. If passed, Canada crosses a Rubicon. From a flawed but free democracy into a regime where the state polices thought under the force of law.
The rally’s message was unanimous: do not retreat, do not compromise, do not be silent. Speak truth in love. Contact MPs today. Pray. Mobilize. The church will endure, but liberty dies when good men do nothing.
Canada stands at the precipice. The time to defend freedom is now—before the cell doors close on conscience itself.