Commentary Parliament needs to find the courage to stand up for Canadians’ fundamental freedoms instead of allowing Bill C-6 to trample them. While the intent of the bill to criminalize harmful practices under the banner of “conversion therapy” is right and good, the effect of the legislation would go much further, devastating fundamental freedoms such as the freedom of religion and conscience, freedom of assembly, and freedom of expression. If the federal government were trying to criminalize only coercive or psychologically and/or physically abusive actions, there would be no controversy. Such practices grossly violate human dignity and are not justifiable based on a system of belief, religious or otherwise. Canadians would overwhelmingly agree that such abhorrent practices are dehumanizing and the government’s goals are laudable. Sadly, Bill C-6 isn’t so targeted. It would ban any “practice, treatment, or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender …