Fraser Valley churches take COVID gathering ban appeal to top court
Three churches that challenged the ban on public gatherings during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 will attempt to appeal their case to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The B.C. Court of Appeal recently ruled against the churches and individuals, who had challenged the province’s right to shut down in-person religious services during the second wave of the pandemic.denied again by the Court of Appeal in a Dec. 16 ruling“The ban on in-person gatherings for religious worship fell within a range of reasonable outcomes and proportionately balanced the appellants’ freedoms with the attainment of critically important public health objectives,” the ruling said.
The request for an appeal says that the lower courts’ rulings are based on administrative rather than constitutional law, and “severely degrade the Charter’s strength in protecting rights and freedoms.”
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