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This report presents a comprehensive constitutional, historical, and biblical challenge to the current expansive interpretation of the word “religion” under Section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Drawing on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Coronation Oath sworn by Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III, the British North America Act, 1867, and the Charter’s own opening declaration (“Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law”), the report demonstrates that:

• The modern, broad, and purportedly neutral definition of “religion” used by Canadian courts is a post-biblical, 16th–19th century Western construct that did not exist in Scripture or at the time of Canada’s founding.
• Section 2(a) was intended to protect the historic Christian church and individual conscience from state interference—not to provide constitutional protection for the erection and worship of false gods or foreign ideologies.
• All provisions of the Charter, including multiculturalism, must be interpreted in submission to the supremacy of the Christian God, consistent with the binding Coronation Oath and Canada’s Christian Constitutional foundations.

The report argues for a return to the original intent of the Charter and calls on Parliament, provincial legislatures, and the courts to restore the proper understanding of “religion” in Canadian law.