The organizer of a protest against the proposed ban on conversion therapy held on Parliament Hill on Dec. 4 says that if passed, Bill C-6 will put parents, faith leaders, and clinicians at risk of being jailed, and is calling for the bill to be withdrawn.
“We’re going to have pastors and priests who are going to go to jail for two years. That’s what it prescribes—two years for publicly preaching the Bible,” said David Cooke, the national campaign manager for Toronto-based Campaign Life Coalition, a pro-life and pro-family organization.