A British Columbia judge questioned whether the province’s top doctor appreciated the right to religious freedom when she issued COVID-19 restrictions that banned in-person worship services. In a hearing on March 3 over a petition challenging Dr. Bonnie Henry’s COVID-19 orders, B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson questioned whether the provincial health officer took into account the right to religious freedom under Canadian law. “She talks about needs of persons to attend in-person religious services, but that really wouldn’t capture the charter right that’s asserted by the petitioners … would it?” Hinkson asked. “What she was obliged to do, surely, was to weigh the rights of persons, not their needs.” Hinkson was referring to what Gareth Morley, a lawyer with the province’s attorney general ministry, had told him of Henry’s statement related to the orders she first issued in November 2020 and subsequently updated a month later. Henry statements …