Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer
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OTTAWA, December 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A spokesman for Conservative leader Andrew Scheer says Canadians should be alarmed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is requiring employers to attest to their support of reproductive and transgender “rights” to receive summer job grants.
“Canadians should be very concerned that the government of Canada is basing its funding decisions on whether or not you hold a certain belief,” said Jake Enwright, Scheer’s director of communications.
“We’re also concerned that individuals who hold private convictions may, for example, no longer be able to help care for the disabled or refugees or provide day camps for children in need,” he told LifeSiteNews in a telephone interview.
Non-profit groups, small businesses, and public sector employers can apply for funding through the Canada Summer Jobs to create jobs for students from 15 to 30 years of age.
According to a government information package to all MPs, employers seeing funding through Canada Summer Jobs must now attest that:
both the job and the organization’s core mandate respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights
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