A Quebec religious group has filed a constitutional challenge against the municipality of Waterloo after it ticketed one of its members for going door-to-door to share its message about suicide prevention.
Groupe Jaspe, a Christian group based in Magog, Que., received two tickets in February worth several hundred dollars for violating a municipal bylaw requiring non-profit groups to obtain a permit for “selling, collecting or soliciting.”
The group says the bylaw infringes on its freedom of religion and expression as enshrined in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Claude Tremblay, the group’s founder, lost his son to suicide and says it is his religious duty to go door-to-door to help prevent others from taking their lives….