Canadian Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals over worship restrictions on churches

[1LoverofGod]

The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear appeals from churches in Ontario and British Columbia that challenged pandemic restrictions on in-person worship. The churches had been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for violating gathering limits.

Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Church of God in Aylmer, Ontario, expressed his disappointment over the court’s decision Friday.

“Truly a sad day for liberty and justice in Canada,” tweeted Hildebrandt. “The Supreme Court refuses to even hear our case, which directly affects freedom of religion, assembly, and speech in Canada. … Not entirely surprising, but very disappointing.”

Hildebrandt’s church, along with Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, had challenged Ontario’s pandemic restrictions on constitutional grounds, arguing that the limitations on gatherings infringed on their rights, according to The Epoch Times. They lost at both Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice and Court of Appeal, which ruled that the restrictions were a justifiable infringement on Canadians’ freedom of religion.

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Canadian Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals over worship restrictions on churches

The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear appeals from churches in Ontario and British Columbia that challenged pandemic restrictions on in-person worship The churches had been fined hundreds ...

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[Tall Timbers]

Is there liberty in Canada? I've been under the impression that if there was, there isn't now.

 

[mattfivefour]

Liberty has departed Canada. But most Canadians are not yet aware that it has.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Liberty has departed Canada. But most Canadians are not yet aware that it has.

I sensed that during my many border crossings during the last two years. I often felt like a member of the Gestapo was questioning me. Often the border folks are quite young and maybe they're having a hard time learning how to appropriately manage the authority/power they have over travelers.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I sensed that during my many border crossings during the last two years. I often felt like a member of the Gestapo was questioning me. Often the border folks are quite young and maybe they're having a hard time learning how to appropriately manage the authority/power they have over travelers.

Just like when TPTB only hire hitler youth-types for LEO. No older, experienced officers with lots of life experience or older recruits with lots of life experience to model common sense, compassion, not being scared, etc. This is part of why there are so many unnecessary and/or excessive and/or avoidable uses of force

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Are wuhan virus restrictions still in place for Canadian churches? Or just some of them?
In any case, dangerous precedents impacting religious freedom have been set on both sides of the border

 

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Canada is undergoing the lifting of the Lord's hand of protection on them, which is allowing for crises to strike the nation.

Woe unto Trudeau and his government when the Lord moves to much harsher judgments.