there’s no way anyone needs a permit to sing songs in a church

Sorry. In this case you’re wrong.

This wasn’t a regular service, with the regular church patrons, and the regular hymn book. This was a special musical concert, from a guy on a musical tour of Canada.

At this point the church is no longer a church but a rented hall for the purpose of holding a musical concert.

In Montreal, you need a permit for that AND the city recommends you submit your application 90 days in advance of the concert date - which they did not do.

If they want to do charitable work, they can register as a regular charity and follow the same rules as everyone.

Outside of that, churches are just a regular business.

issued a ticket with a fine in the amount of $2,500 for engaging in Christian worship at a Friday service

This is not true at all.

This was not a regular Friday service. This was a special music concert. In Montreal, per the bylaws “Events with 50 to 3,000 people in attendance require prior authorization.” They also recommend submitting the application 90 days in advance.

They wanted to have a show, only planned a few days in advance, they didn’t have permits, the city said no and if they continue they would get fined. They continued, they got fined.

I don’t see what the problem is here.

This has nothing to do with religion. The same thing would have happened if fucking U2 wanted to play a coffee shop with 60 seat capacity with a day or two notice. The entire point of getting authorization with 90 days notice is so you don’t have pop-up concerts happening around the city at venues that aren’t adequate and might cause things like traffic and parking problems.

Having said that, this is perfect for Christians and this MAGA cuntface. They love playing the role of someone being terribly persecuted. They don’t follow the rules then cry giant baby Jesus tears when presented with consequences.

The MAGA dude sees this whole thing as a win because he gets free press, gets to hop on his huge travelling cross and sob to his cult, and you know for a FACT he isn’t the one stuck with the fine. The church is.

Please don’t say arou*ed. A child might read the internet.

This douche just tried to play a public park in PEI and some local goofballs decided to have a counter protest in the form of a vuvuzela party. Same time. Same day. Same place.

After that the city decided it might be best to pull the permit. He ended up playing in a backwoods church to a handful of regular church members.

Then he tried to play in Moncton and the city pulled their permit. The only other place he could play on such short notice was a church in the woods 2 hours away. I think 20 people showed up.

His entire tour is a hilarious failure.

$10 says Trump couldn’t remember which brown lady ran against him in the election so he just picked 3 names he could remember.

On the plus side, it sounds like they have a lot of vacant land for a new cemetery.

Trump’s golden age is full of winning!

“I don’t want to work. I want to live in the woods and grow my own food and get back to nature.” - City Hippie

Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian org. They cheat on their taxes and don’t pay them because they’re “a charity” and think no one else should pay taxes. Of course they fudge numbers like this and find extremes.

If you do the actual math on your personal taxes, unless you are somehow extra ordinary, you’ll find overall you’re being taxed in the neighbourhood of 30%.

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Oh no… Anyway.

Pretty cool until I saw the packaging. I refuse to buy produce entombed in a plastic bubble.

Well, he’s fired in 3…2…

MAGA Twerp: “Better a Russian than a Democrat.”

Sane People: “LOL k. Have fun being turned into drone made meat chowder.”

The moment Trump openly starts killing brown people in his death camps they will all come running back.

“Forgive me, Daddy.”

Sounds like America to me.

Does it hurt someone? If the answer is yes, then it is the appropriate American move.

We are f’n taxed to death in Canada.

Bullshit

I’m sure in the future the “integrity fee” will vary depending on the country. Mexico and other brown people places, the fee will be $30k per person. Japan, less. Maybe $1000 per person. Scary Muslim places will be $250k or more.

With the world avoiding the US, I’m sure THAT will bring more people in.

That’s $1000 for a family of 4.