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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The top court in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has dismissed a legal challenge against the BC government’s COVID health order which bans in-person religious gatherings. The court, however, struck down a prohibition on outdoor protests.
The legal challenge was made by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) in the Supreme Court of BC
In January the JCCF announced it was filing a legal challenge on behalf of three churches and four individuals against the restrictions on worship services and public protest issued by the BC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.
Shortly after filing the legal challenge, the BC government sought an injunction to try and close the churches that brought the legal challenge, before the case went to court. However, on February 17, the Court denied the government’s injunction request.
In his March 19 decision regarding the churches, Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson of the Supreme Court of BC stated that Henry’s orders did infringe on the applicant’s fundamental freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, and association, but ruled
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