The religion of tolerance

Here's what Beverley McLachlin, the Chief Justice of Canada, had to say at the World Conference on Religion and Education in 2004:

In a diverse, multicultural world, tolerance is the most important value. Whatever else we teach our children, we must teach them tolerance ... The rearing of children is ... the most profound responsibility that lies on any society. But whatever our history, whatever our belief, we should always remember that this is a responsibility, not a right. Too often in the past, the welfare of children has been sacrificed to other interests; too easily it has been relinquished in favour of more compelling competing values. Too often religion has been used not to make our children strong and free but rather to suppress and stifle; not to make them tolerant, but rather to teach them hate; not to incline them to peace, but rather to strife. Religion is a fundamental element of our humanity. As such, it properly occupies a central place in the rearing of our children ... [But we] must teach them not only religion but above all, tolerance, for surely that is what is in their best interests.

(quoted on p. 94 of Nation of Bastards: Essays on the End of Marriage)

While I'm a fan of the classical definition of tolerance, summarized, for example, in Voltaire's well-known statement "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it", I somehow doubt that that's how she'd define the term.