An Alberta-based law firm is taking up the case of church leaders, including three Chatham-Kent men, accused of holding illegal gatherings during the pandemic.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is taking on the case of several churches across southwestern Ontario.
Chatham-Kent Police charged two men connected with the Old Colony Mennonite Church in Wheatley under the Reopening Ontario Act for holding church services over the Christmas holidays, contrary to provincial lockdown measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Another Chatham-Kent man was charged by the OPP after a service at the Word of Life Mennonite church in Leamington, and similar charges have been laid against church leaders in Woodstock, Windsor, and Aylmer.