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Legal Scholar Dwight Newman Breaks Down Religious Freedom in Canada and the Incredible Invocation of the Emergencies Act

February 22, 2022

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"I'm not sure courts are fully valuing religious freedom at times," says Dwight Newman, a University of Saskatchewan law professor. "We’ve had probably a secularization of the judiciary, to some extent." Prof. Newman is the author of the recent Cardus report Reasonable Limits: How Far Does Religious Freedom Go in Canada?