Internet Preacher

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Ron

No, in the States it is much more sacrosanct enshrined in your Constitution of Religious freedom. We were governed by the British North America Act that was based in England.
I'm 1982 we repatriated it and created the Canadian Constitution with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. There is a clause that these "Rights' can't be abridged unless what is considered reasonable and necessary. We are not a Republic like you guys.

Everyone in Canada is free to practise any religion or no religion at all. We are also free to express religious beliefs through prayer or by wearing religious clothing for example. However, the Charter also ensures that others also have the right to express their religious beliefs in public.

We’re free to think our own thoughts, speak our minds, listen to views of others and express our opinions in creative ways. We’re also free to meet with anyone we wish and participate in peaceful demonstrations. This includes the right to protest against a government action or institution.

However, these freedoms are not unlimited. There may be limits on how you express your religious beliefs if your way of doing so would infringe on the rights of others or undermine complex public programs and policies.

Now there are some Churches in Alberta and BC with deeper pockets than us that are challenging these lockdowns in Court using the Charter.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
(Luk 1:68-75)

Your "charter" is the Holy Bible. You have been authorised to assemble together to worship Christ. If man says "no, you are NOT authorised" then the proper Christian response is found here:

But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
(Act 4:19)

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
(Act 5:27-29)