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Jean-Christophe Jasmin: Christian event unfairly blocked by former Quebec minister

The court found that the minister acted in an arbitrary and abusive manner, without any regard for their rights

Can we, in Quebec, exclude certain citizens from public facilities because of their political views?

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This type of discrimination, common under authoritarian regimes, “has no place in a free and democratic society like Quebec,” the province’s Superior Court said on July 31, in deciding a case involving a Christian group, B.C.-based Harvest Ministries International (HMI) and the former Quebec minister of tourism Caroline Proulx.

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The drama began in 2023, when Proulx forced the termination of a lease agreement because she disapproved of HMI’s views on abortion. Her communications team tried to frame this cancellation as part of the abortion debate despite the fact the event in question, called “Faith,........

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