COVID-19 rules is to appeal his bail conditions today.James Coates with GraceLife Church, west of Edmonton, has been in jail for just over two weeks.Coates is charged with violating Alberta’s Public Health Act and with breaking a promise to abide by conditions of his bail release, which is a Criminal Code offence.
Who’s responsible for enforcing COVID-19 restrictions in Alberta? The church has been holding services that officials say break public-health orders on attendance, masking and distancing.A judge has ordered Coates to go to trial in May.A lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is representing the pastor.The group says the lawyer will argue that his client’s imprisonment and the charge he faces violate his.