A reader (hat tip: Cathy) just sent me a link to a great web site which, among other things, promotes Judeo-Christian values. IN CANADA! But what I also got out of my quick review is that they’re also trying to reclaim what they—and I—think are actually Canadian values. The real Canadian values—not the ones created and shoved down our throats by the secular liberal-left, the liberal media, academia, and so on.
It’s called the Institute For Canadian Values. I read a commentary by one of its founders, Joseph C. Ben-Ami, which puts them solidly in our camp. They speak our language. I venture to say they speak for millions of Canadians.
I’m glad to know there are people like this in Canada and I will support them as we all should.
In the meantime, here’s their latest press release:
Press Release: Institute calls federal prostitution plans “an attack on the rights and dignity’ of Canadian women
Date: Oct 06, 2005
Ottawa – The Institute for Canadian Values today expressed its disappointment with the news that a House of Commons Committee is planning to recommend that solicitation in Canada be made legal and prostitution regulated.
“We are saddened by this news and consider it to be an attack on the rights and dignity of all Canadian women,” said Joseph Ben-Ami, Executive Director of the Institute. “The sex-trade industry is inherently abusive and degrading to women and will not become less so simply because it is regulated. On the contrary, by regulating and licensing sex-trade workers, by requiring medical examinations and issuing health certificates, it seems to us that the only people we will be protecting are the customers — the men who exploit women.
“Canadians rightly want our governments to do something to alleviate the pain and suffering of women trapped in the sex-trade, but making that trade just one segment of our economy with its own bureaucracy and rate of taxation, is not the way to go. Rather than facilitating the abuse, we should be combating it through a combination of education and better policing.
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