OTTAWA - The Harper government is planning to announce its long-awaited Office of Religious Freedom in an event at a Toronto-area mosque next Tuesday.
The announcement ? which the government refuses to discuss ? comes 22 months after the Tories first promised to create a modest, religious freedom branch within the Foreign Affairs Department.
The pledge was unveiled in the Conservative campaign platform during the last federal election, but Foreign Affairs has been unable to find a commissioner to take job.
Human rights groups and opposition critics have said the office is a misguided attempt to inject religion into foreign policy.
They also question what exactly the new office can accomplish with a modest $5 million budget.
However, a spokesman for a major Jewish organization that has been invited to Tuesday's event says the fact that the Harper government is holding it at a mosque shows its commitment to persecuted religious minorities the world over.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/conservatives-unveil-long-delayed-religious-freedom-office-next-203118073.html
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