An Alberta Court has dismissed an Edmonton pastor’s claims that his Charter Rights of religious freedom were violated when he refused to comply with COVID-19 rules. Pastor James Coates of GraceLife Church filed a charter application, a pre-trial motion that individuals make when seeking remedy for violations of Charter rights, regarding a Dec. 20, 2020, ticket he received for holding church services that the Alberta government said violated COVID-19 restrictions. Provincial Court of Alberta Judge Robert Shaigec ruled on Monday that the “enforcement” of law was not a violation of Coates’s religious freedom. Following the ruling, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, a non-profit legal organization representing Coates, issued a statement saying that it’s “disappointed.” “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms requires governments to justify demonstrably—with compelling evidence—any law, policy or health order that violates any of our fundamental freedoms to move, travel, associate, worship, assemble, and express ourselves,” Justice …