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OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian Supreme Court has refused to hear two Ontario churches’ constitutional challenges to COVID-era restrictions.
On August 10, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed a further appeal from the Aylmer Church of God and Trinity Bible Chapel who argued that the Ontario government violated their Charter-protected right to religious freedom through its COVID regulations.
“The churches have challenged the gathering restrictions for violating the fundamental freedoms of conscience, religion, expression, peaceful assembly, and association, guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in a manner that could not demonstrably be justified in a free and democratic society,” the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms stated in a press release.
“They argued that the harms caused by the gathering restrictions far outweighed any benefit they provided, and that they must be struck down,” the statement continued.
On May 1, the two churches filed an application in the Supreme Court to appeal their previous constitutional challenge to Ontario’s gathering restrictions. The churches argued that the lower courts “failed to assess whether the gathering restrictions infringed on the rights to
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