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‘Fight for freedom goes beyond the courtroom,’ says Cardus president

April 9, 2014

This week on the ChristianWeek website, Cardus president Michael Van Pelt shed some light on why this organization decided to stand with Loyola High School in its fight for freedom: "Standing with others against insinuation of that hesitancy, and that fear, in the hearts of Canadians of religious faith is what drives Cardus daily. It is what led us to stand with little Loyola High School in Montreal as it took its case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada on March 24 this year. "When we were first drawn to the case, not as activists but as a think tank able to provide intellectual and communications support, people frequently asked why an Ontario organization drawn from the Protestant tradition would concern itself with the fate of a private Catholic school in Quebec. Full disclosure: we asked it of ourselves." Read the rest of the article here.