Shastri Veit Weber, a Shambhala Buddhist representative in the non-Christian prison chaplaincy in Canada was recently affected by a sweeping government budget cut. In an article on Touch Base, a magazine for Canadians, he says, “I am not a lawyer, but it looks to me that this action is a violation of the Charter of rights. It’s also discriminatory, since all but one of the 80 full time Chaplains are Christian and the funding to Native elders have not been cut. While that may be a good thing, it nonetheless points to the bias of the Minister.”