Pennings quoted in the Toronto Sun, "Let’s let religion out of the closet" Ray Pennings of Cardus, an independent policy institute, says religion generates: “A civic oxygen on which Canadian social ecology relies. “The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy calculates that the 32% of Canadians who are religiously active contribute 65% of direct charitable donations.” He addressed the danger of excluding religion in a way people concerned with human rights and empowerment of the individual should understand. “If public, political language can only exclude God, we are not just preventing believers from speaking about their faith. We are denying them the right to speak for themselves.” Read the entire article.