Critics assail government over creation of religious office

I have a new story on the national page of Xtra.ca today, which is my look at the new Office of Religious Freedom while talking to experts on international human rights and Canadian foreign policy. It was really fascinating to see how much convergence there was in the criticisms from three different professors in the field, and how their criticisms were about the message the creation of office itself sends, rather than any of the yet-unknown particulars of the office itself at this point (and one could certainly criticise the selection of groups they have been consulting with to date). The original version did have an added section about the death of multilateralism in Canadian foreign policy, but the point was made in some of the comments.