Fact: In the wake of the Great Recession (in what might have
been an Augustinian - or "Bible Bill" - moment following the sack of Rome), the “Harper Government”
gave over $20 million of federal public money from its “Economic Action Plan”
to evangelical teaching institutions across Canada.[1]
Fact: $2.6 million
was given to Trinity Western University (TWU) in 2009, a private Christian
university in Langley, B.C. The source
of money was the so-called Knowledge Infrastructure Program.
Fact: TWU’s trove of public money was announced by the
Conservative MP for Langley, Mark Warawa, himself a graduate of TWU, who did
not see any conflict of interest.
Fact: Education is considered a provincial responsibility, and our public
colleges and universities are underfunded.
Fact: No one at TWU complained of a crisis of conscience in light of the violation of
Canada’s federal finances.
Fact: TWU now has a Law School, set to start in 2016, but
the university prohibits what some people do in their bedrooms.
Fact: What was public
was given to the private, and what is private will now interfere with the
public - all in the name of religious freedom.
[1]
See Marci McDonald, The Armageddon
Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada (Toronto: Vintage,
2011), p. 245. See also http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christian-schools-received-20m-from-infrastructure-fund-1.1329280
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