Quebec’s Superior Court has ruled that the provincial government violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by directing a publicly-owned convention center to cancel a scheduled Christian conference over its pro-life views.
The conference at the Quebec City Convention Centre entitled “Faith, Freedom, Fire” had been slated to run June 23 to July 2, 2023, but was cancelled after then-tourism minister Caroline Proulx said statements on the website of organizer Harvest Ministries International were “anti-abortion” and that the group should therefore not allowed to hold a conference.
In a ruling announced on July 31, Quebec Superior Court held that Proulx lacked the legal authority to direct the cancellation of the conference and had unlawfully denied Harvest Ministries access to the publicly owned venue because the government disagreed with the organization’s beliefs about abortion….