Canadian Human Rights Commission Report Says Christmas a ‘Discriminatory’ Holiday

The report says Canada’s ‘identity as a settler colonial state’ is a chief reason for its ’religious intolerance.’

People make their way along a Christmas-decorated Sparks Street in Ottawa on Dec. 6, 2022. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

A new report from Canada’s human rights watchdog says Christmas is a discriminatory holiday rooted in “colonialism.”

The Oct. 23 report from the Canadian Human Rights Commission called Canada’s celebration of Jesus’s birth “an obvious example” of “systemic religious discrimination.”