Reasonable Limits

Special Podcast Episode Join Father Deacon Andrew Bennett and NextGEN Fellow Kristopher Kinsinger in an extended conversation about the polarizing debate that this report addresses.   Executive Summary Freedom of religion is one of the fundamental freedoms enumerated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Advocacy of religious freedom is often misunderstood as calling for positions that would be difficult for anyone to reasonably accept. A more nuanced discussion of this right can dispel some of this misunderstanding. This paper examines the “reasonable limits” clause in section 1 of the Charter, which states that the Charter “guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in its subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society