Renaissance Canada was a conservative lobby group founded in 1974 by Christian activist

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to promote "parent power" in education. It is known for its involvement in its attempt to remove from school curricula works such as novels of

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and for its public condemnations of

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's '' The Last Temptation of Christ''.

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