Churches in Manitoba Court of Appeal to challenge COVID-19 rules

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Churches say public health orders in 2020 and 2021 that temporarily closed in-person religious services, then permitted them with caps on attendance, violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Lawyers for seven Manitoba churches made another attempt Tuesday to have some of the province’s former COVID-19 restrictions declared invalid.

The churches’ lawyer told the Court of Appeal that the trial judge erred in not fully examining whether less restrictive rules could have achieved the same goal.“So many other businesses could be open when churches were closed.” Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, had said that close, prolonged indoor contact was a prime driver of cases and such contact occurs at church services, wedding and funerals.

“Non-constitutionally protected activities and businesses are permitted and constitutionally protected activities are not.”

 

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Did they not see how every other court case around mandates has gone for them?

My religious relatives all met in secret, spreading Covid.

Take their tax exemptions away

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