Rousseau comes to Canada

This guest commentary is positively alarming, especially as its author owes his podium to Canada's national broadcaster. Ferguson would effectively unleash persecution on all whose faith would not allow them to conform to his outrageous proposal. A sample:

I envisage a congress meeting to hammer out a code that would form the basis of legislation to regulate the practice of religion. . . . I won't try to propose what might be in the new code except for a few obvious things: A key item would have to be a ban on claims of exclusivity. It should be unethical for any RRP [registered religious practitioner] to claim that theirs was the one true religion and believers in anything else or nothing were doomed to fire and brimstone. One might also expect prohibition of ritual circumcisions, bans on preaching hate or violence, the regulation of faith healers, protocols for missionary work, etc.

Now what is the point of proposing this? I do it because I am worried that the separation between church and state is under threat.

I seem to recall a similar proposal in book 4, chapter 8 of Rousseau's Social Contract. It's called civil religion. Just how such totalitarian intrusiveness is to ensure the separation of church and state the author does not bother to tell us.