An article was published recently in the National Post claiming that the Humanist Association of Canada and the Freethought Association of Canada have nothing in common except that we don’t believe in god. It also mentioned that we’re “rivals” and that we’re essentially fighting over who can have the best campaign.

This just simply isn’t true. HAC and FAC have no tiff with one another, especially not one that would make us “rivals”.

Two rival atheist groups will attempt to peddle their different views of non-belief to Canadians through separate advertising campaigns on public transit.

We are not rival groups. We are different groups, with different mandates and who focus on different priorities. Every organization that has called telling me they are going to do their own atheist bus campaign, I have supported whole  heartedly because it just means more buses with our messages being displayed. This is not a competition, the humanist group wants a different message than ours – and I don’t think that all freethinking groups need to be lumped into one. The more messages – the better.

The humanists doing their campaign is amazing, and I hope that this can spread even farther across Canada. The more messages, the more dialogue!

It should also be noted that the National Post has made other factual errors in their article, they claimed the UK campaign raised $20,000. This is not true, according to converstion rates today the UK campaign has raised about $261,429.65 CAD so far.