As Canada’s first and only religious freedom ambassador, Andrew Bennett spoke out for the persecuted faithful in China and Iran as well as other countries notorious for suppressing freedom of belief.  Fortunately, Canadians are not subjected to religious persecution, but Bennett nevertheless warns that there’s been a gradual erosion of religious freedom in Canada that he finds concerning. “It’s been a slow process, but it’s manifesting itself more clearly in our present time … in a variety of different ways,” he told The Epoch Times.  Bennett is the director of the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute and is an ordained deacon in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the diocese of Toronto and Eastern Canada. He led Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom from 2013 to 2016, before it was dismantled under the Liberal government. Bennett says there is a “narrowing” of religious freedom that manifests in areas such as conscience rights, where …