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Whatever their efficacy in fighting off COVID-19, it’s clear that Canada’s current border controls are on a scale unprecedented in modern times. Since March 25, 2020, all travellers entering Canada have been required to undergo 14 days of mandatory self-isolation, subject to fines or even arrest in the case of non-compliance. And now, incoming air travellers face mandatory confinement to a hotel paired with mandatory testing.
These policies would be inviting a cascade of Charter challenges under normal circumstances, but for now it’s all kosher due to them being a function of the Quarantine Act. Rewritten after the 2003 SARS pandemic, the act extends near-dictatorial powers to government during times of public health crisis. But the question is how long the Act can guide federal policy before inviting pushback.
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As part of her rolling coverage of Alberta’s burgeoning anti-lockdown movement,
Rebel Media’s Sheila Gunn Reid aims her YouTube spotlight at a GraceLife Church outside Edmonton, which, she reported last week, “has been the site of peaceful Christian civil disobedience” after Pastor James Coates refused to comply with public-health orders to limit crowd sizes and wear a mask.
“Two Sundays ago, he was arrested by the local RCMP for violating public-health orders,” she explains, but “took to the pulpit again” on Feb. 14, “in defiance of the government but in obedience to his God … while the RCMP waited outside.”
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CALGARY, Alberta, February 25, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) In solidarity with Alberta Pastor James Coates who is in jail for preaching to his flock amid lockdowns, another faith leader defied COVID rules restricting service sizes with a service held last Sunday, saying we “cannot comply with rules” that make “what we essentially do as a church impossible.”
“We understand the dangers of COVID-19 but we also understand the dangers of policies that seek to reduce the spread of the virus. All must admit that the lockdowns and restrictions have been damaging,” said Tim Stephens, who serves as Senior Pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary in a press release sent out Sunday.