Christian group sues Quebec government for blocking convention over abortion concerns
A Christian group announced Wednesday it is suing the Quebec government after the tourism minister cancelled a religious gathering last June at a publicly owned convention centre because she assumed the event would promote anti-abortion views.
The court filing, dated Aug. 2, argues that the cancellation of the “Faith, Fire and Freedom” rally was a violation of the group’s Charter rights to non-discrimination and to freedom of religion, expression, opinion, and peaceful assembly. The group is asking for more than $200,000 in compensation for moral and material loss, and for punitive damages. It is also asking for a declaration that its rights were unjustly interfered with.
“It is simply not acceptable that anyone should suffer discrimination at the hands of government on account of religion or political opinion,” the centre’s president, John Carpay, said in a statement on Wednesday.Quebec Premier François Legault supported Proulx’s decision to cancel the event, stating in June that the province wasn’t going to allow “anti-abortion groups to put on big shows in public places.
In a statement, Pastor Art Lucier said the rally was intended to be “a Christian event of reconciliation between Canada’s founding peoples.”
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