Are UCFM Ordinations Recognized in Canada?
The UCFM faces some of the greatest of difficulties in Canada. Actually I am not aware of anywhere else in the world that there have been more problems with Canada. Religious freedoms in Canada are very restrictive under government control. The UCFM would have to make an application to each province of Canada and go thru great amounts of “red-tape” additionally. This is not only true of U.S. based faiths – it is also true of Canadian born faiths. For example there is a ministry in Canada that is similar to the UCFM and of the last that I knew it was only recognized by the Canadian government in only one province, and is attempting to move more toward working within the U.S. The current situation is the UCFM would have to do a lot of work in Canada, meeting many governmental controlling regulations, but worst of all is the wait of approximately 3-5 years going thru mountains of paperwork, expense with a 50/50 chance of approval – and this must be done separately in every province. This
