Lawyer for Christian University That Won Court Challenge of Summer Jobs Program Says Issue ‘Of Concern to Everybody’

Lawyer for Christian University That Won Court Challenge of Summer Jobs Program Says Issue ‘Of Concern to Everybody’
The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill is reflected in a window in downtown Ottawa on March 26, 2019. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
Andrew Chen
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A lawyer representing a Christian university in a case against Ottawa regarding its student hiring program says everyone should be concerned when government funds are conditional on adherence to state-imposed ideas.

“It’s about whether or not the government can dictate what people believe, and what beliefs are appropriate and what beliefs are not,” Albertos Polizogopoulos, a lawyer for Hamilton-based Redeemer University, told The Epoch Times.