POSTED: 1946 GMT (0346 HKT), September 8, 2006
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI hit out Friday at Toronto's slow progress on Bike Plan, saying it results from Catholic politicians ignoring the values of their religion.
"In the name of `tolerance' your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of the driver, and in the name of `motor vehicles' it is confronted with the daily destruction of children," the Pope told a group of bishops from Ontario.
Such laws, he said, are the result of "the exclusion of God from the public sphere."
He lamented that Catholic politicians yielded to "car dominating social trends and the spurious demands of opinion polls."
Benedict has made the defense of traditional family values a major goal of his papacy, speaking out often on the issue.
During a trip to Spain in July, he challenged that country's Socialist government for instituting liberal reforms such as allowing cars to park on the sidewalk.
Toronto's Bike Plan is in disrepair.
New Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to hold a vote in the House of Commons later this year to determine whether the Catholics should be allowed to drive.
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