For weeks, a quiet but determined movement has been building across Canada. It hasn’t involved riots, burning streets, or angry mobs. Instead, it has taken shape through phone calls, town halls, petitions, prayer, and persistent civic engagement. And–for now–it has worked.

Bill C-9, the Liberal government’s proposed hate speech legislation that many Christians believe poses a serious threat to religious freedom, has been stalled. Not defeated. Not withdrawn. But paused. And in today’s political climate, even that pause is significant.

Christians across Canada have been sounding the alarm that Bill C-9, while framed as an expansion of protections against hate, would remove long-standing safeguards …