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how about starting with property taxes?
CBC seems to be picking up the baton the Globe & Mail's first ran with in 2016.Catholic Church raised nearly $300M for buildings since promising residential school survivors $25M in 2005
CBC compiled Catholic projects announced since promising 'best efforts' to survivors, paying them under $4M
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sask...aising-residential-school-survivors-1.6090650
Sigh...maybe time to start taxing religious institutions.
Yeah, on that, Canadian Bishop Central says it's as decentralized as they want it to be ....... The Catholic Church is one international organization, it's not like it has an independent denomination in every country that has ultimate authority, they all answer to the Vatican.
Nothing from The Vatican on that - although Vatican Central did apologize to other groups elsewhere for stuff Catholic church organizations in other countries did to people....The Catholic community in Canada has a decentralized structure. Each Diocesan Bishop is autonomous in his diocese and, although relating to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, is not accountable to it. Approximately 16 out of 70 Catholic dioceses in Canada were associated with the former Indian Residential Schools, in addition to about three dozen Catholic religious communities. Each diocese and religious community is corporately and legally responsible for its own actions. The Catholic Church as a whole in Canada was not associated with the Residential Schools, nor was the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops ...
And Commanding Officers from Alberta dictate Canadian Forces policy.
So delete religion from the tax code entirely. If you do good works (for example, maintaining a historical local building and grounds) that qualify you for charitable status? Excellent! You're a charity! Otherwise, there's non-profit or for-profit options.I think that it's important to remember that a very large percentage of Canadian Christians are not Catholic and have no connection to the Catholic Church, in many cases many denominations left the Catholic Church because they felt that many things the Vatican was doing was wrong. Perhaps we will see a few converts from this. If you start taxing every church based on the actions of the Catholic Church, that's for one thing discrimination. Many smaller churches would be forced to close if they were taxed, because many are barely holding on. They don't have the riches of the Vatican.
I suspect this will be the go to thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if “allies” are the ones doing it to. You know the type. Not native but activists that feel they can speak and protest for native communities. Likely from far away and likely the same types that protest at G7 and G20 summits or chain themselves to trees. But I am only surmising and throwing my thoughts out.A week old, but I did not see them posted as I caught up in this thread:
Rex Murphy: What's not to understand (and abhor) about 'burn it all down'?
What responsible organization, what person leading a responsible organization, would think or utter such a thing?nationalpost.com
While some cheer on the destruction of churches, First Nations pick up the pieces
After a failed arson attack on an on-reserve Anglican church, Gitwangak First Nation said the church had no connection to residential schools. Vandals returned to b…nationalpost.com
Terry Glavin: Canada's early Christian prophets were Indigenous. Now someone's destroying their churches
As pyres have been made of sturdy little churches built by First Nations, the sneering of all those white 'allies' is the thing to noticenationalpost.com
Black Bloc?I suspect this will be the go to thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if “allies” are the ones doing it to. You know the type. Not native but activists that feel they can speak and protest for native communities. Likely from far away and likely the same types that protest at G7 and G20 summits or chain themselves to trees. But I am only surmising and throwing my thoughts out.
Or the same type.Black Bloc?
Objects?News coverage over all of this has been reduced substantially even after more discoveries of objects under past schools.
But that gets buried in the narrative unfortunately.They should also be sympathetic to the indigenous people who rely on the churches that "do-gooders" have been burning down.
We'd be a bunch better off, as a society, if fewer people were offended on behalf of other people, whom they neither know nor know much about, who are not themselves offended.
Yup.But that gets buried in the narrative unfortunately.
…and the churches’ ashes…But that gets buried in the narrative unfortunately.