re: In Montreal, you can’t have a Christian singer have a worship service in a Church

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No y'all have

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I didn't mention it until you did

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I keep telling y'all that isn't an issue

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sure Jan

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This is not true.

You're mis-stating the law.

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If the government has to approve of the person you invite then you don't have a right.

I thought your whole point was that they needed a permit no matter who it was.

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Religions and religious people don't get to break the laws everyone else must obey b/c of their religion.

Like in that Supreme Court (CA) case. If you want a driver's license, then you have to take a photo. If you don't, then you don't get to break the law and get one anyway.

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Again, you are claiming you have better insight into Canadian law than Justice Renee Pomerance who declared that law had no bearing on religious gatherings.

You aren't a Canadian Lawyer, don't you usually mock people who pretend to know the law?

In this case we have Ontario Superior Court (made up of people who happen to know Canadian law) clearly deciding that it does not apply to church gatherings in the way it applies to drivers licenses, and clearly explaining their reasoning.

The judgement was appealed and was reviewed by the Canadian Supreme court and left standing.

You can be as argumentative as you want, but this is very cut and dry. you misread the claims of the government as the findings of the court when you skimmed it for about 30 seconds, and you've stuck with it ever since.

Of course your response will be ohh nooo let me repeat myself again, this is not what it looks like.

But seriously, you knew you were wrong pages and pages ago lol, At this point I'm quite convinced you aren't planning on adding any more information to this thread.

I've read through the whole thing.
I'll let Renee have the last word.

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I don't know that they are

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They are

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I don't even know if you're talking about Canada, Europe or the US

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All of the above. Take your pick

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SFP posted the answer on page 1

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Ah yes, the "permit" required. But that doesn't answer the question, now does it?

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It appeared to be a political concert

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Where did you hear this?

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no one is really countering his argument rationally and supporting the assertion in the OP

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I've asked SFP a question and it is still unanswered. You interjected the political aspect of it but that is unsubstantiated.

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If the government has to approve of the person you invite then you don't have a right.

I thought your whole point was that they needed a permit no matter who it was.

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You frame an argument incorrectly and then claim my argument is absurd within that bad framing. News at 11

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Again, you are claiming you have better insight into Canadian law than Justice Renee Pomerance who declared that law had no bearing on religious gatherings.

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And unrelated Covid-era law. That ruling and the words you keep relying on ONLY apply to that law.

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I'll let Renee have the last word.

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Those words only apply to a law we're not discussing ITT, about a province that isn't even the province we're discussing

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The various local regs on large events.

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So 400 people in weekly church services is not a large event requiring a permit, but 400 people listening to Christian music on Wednesday night is a large event requiring a permit.

It's not like they expanded the church to hold the concert, right?

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The various local regs on large events.

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I am asking for a very specific citation. It’s going to be impossible for you to provide because you don’t know the answer. I’m asking anyway because you’re certain that they broke the law even though you don’t know what law they broke. I’m doing this to highlight that you are believing this with blind faith.

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Security: For larger concerts, you'll likely need to hire security personnel.

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How large is “larger?” You don’t know. It hasn’t stopped you once from blithely asserting as if you know.

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but 400 people listening to Christian music on Wednesday night is a large event requiring a permit.

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There are pictures of the concert inside the church. It’s well under capacity of the venue. Maybe 200 people.

ETA: it’s probably closer to 100. And by “closer” I mean “under.”

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Capacity Management: Even within a private venue's allowed occupancy, for a concert, you need a plan for crowd management, ingress/egress, and emergency procedures.

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So a church service.

Got it.

You are a loon.

Just say that you want to shoot it a church and call it a day.

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So the authorities claiming the event in the church required a permit were lying? Making shite up?

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Like this doesn't happen all the freaking time