Juno News - Why are churches being targeted while police stand by？

In Canada, interrupting or disturbing religious services is a crime. And yet, if you go back to those images of the church in Montreal, you will see police officers, in uniform, standing idly by while Antifa protests terrorize a church. While they obstruct a church service, while they disrupt it, they use objects to prevent a religious officiant from conducting a service.

00:00:00.000 we do have laws on the book that say that this is not allowed. So let me just read. This is an AI

00:00:05.420 overview. It says in Canada, interrupting or disturbing religious worship is addressed under

00:00:11.700 the criminal code of Canada, specifically sections 176 and 175 deal with the obstruction of religious

00:00:18.180 services and causing disruptions respectively. So I'm going to read a little bit of the key

00:00:23.480 provisions. Section 176.1, the section criminalizes the use of threats or force to obstruct or prevent

00:00:31.520 a religious officiant from conducting a service or performing their functions. Section 176.2,

00:00:37.520 this section prohibits willfully disturbing or interrupting any meeting of people assembled

00:00:42.900 for religious worship or for moral, social, or benevolent purposes. Section 176.3, the section

00:00:49.500 addresses the action that disrupt the order or solemnity of a religious service, a similar

00:00:56.220 meeting, whether within the meeting itself or its immediate vicinity. And then section 430, 4.1,

00:01:02.840 this section addresses mischief, damaging, or interfering with property motivated by hate,

00:01:08.040 prejudice, or bias against a religion, and specifically mentions building structures

00:01:12.480 or objects primarily used for religious worship.

00:01:16.520 Folks, this is a crime.

00:01:18.880 It is on the books in Canada.

00:01:20.300 You can serve up to two years in prison for it.

00:01:22.640 And yet, if you go back to those images of the church in Montreal,

00:01:26.360 you will see police officers, police officers in uniform,

00:01:31.060 standing idly by while Antifa protests terrorize a church,

00:01:35.880 while they obstruct a church service, while they disrupt it.

00:01:40.700 they use objects to prevent religious efficient from conducting a service exactly as it's written

00:01:46.400 in the criminal code. Was anybody arrested? Was anybody charged? The police just stood idly by,

00:01:52.560 and instead they fined the church $2,500 for the crime of having a religious service. This is the

00:02:00.480 state of affairs in Canada, and not to belabor this point too much, folks, but the reality in

00:02:06.840 Canada in 2025 is that we see other faiths. We see faiths from people in other communities,

00:02:12.800 not the founding communities of Canada, but other faiths, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Jews,

00:02:18.440 all of these people have their religious rights guaranteed. And we see it time and time again.

00:02:24.320 This is what it looks like. This is what it looks like. They can block the streets.

00:02:28.640 They are allowed to have their prayer services. That is all common in Canada. We see it

00:02:36.120 all the time, large groups of almost entirely, I would say entirely men able to take over the

00:02:44.820 streets, city streets, blocking traffic, blocking people commuting, blocking Canadians, just going 1.00

00:02:50.720 about their daily lives. And that is perfectly okay. In fact, if you criticize it, or if you

00:02:55.740 try to stop it, you will be arrested, you will be stopped, you will be criticized.

Juno News - July 30, 2025

Why are churches being targeted while police stand by？

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