Since a B.C. judge ruled in March that health orders to close churches are justified but preventing protests is not, “worship protests” have sprung up across the province, providing a legal loophole for people of faith to assemble.
“I attend every protest I possibly can wherever I am, because I believe we are being coerced and verbally abused into surrendering our rights, and it is my dutiful choice as a citizen to defy what I feel to be unjust mandates,” Victoria resident Jeremy MacKenzie said in an interview.
