Two Ontario churches that challenged the province’s COVID-19 religious gathering restrictions, claiming they violated their right to freedom of religion and assembly under the Constitution, have lost in court.
Ontario Superior Court of Justice Renee Pomerance, who oversaw the hearing held at the end of January, released her decision Tuesday.
The Church of God in Aylmer, Ont., and the Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, Ont., were charged in the spring of 2021 for various infringements of the public health restrictions put in place to help curb the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Pomerance writes in her decision that she agrees that religious gathering
