Hasn't just rolled over and died... on matters
involving religion...After reserving for a year on the complex question of when secular courts can step in to matters involving religion, the Supreme Court has split 7-2 to order a Jewish man to pay damages to his ex-wife for reneging on his civil undertaking to grant her a religious divorce.
In the wake of the ruling, Bruker’s counsel, Alan Stein of Montreal’s Stein and Stein, said Jewish couples will be able to include get provisions in their prenuptial agreements knowing they are enforceable by civil damage claims.
So... to sum up...
“Freedom of religion is not absolute,” Stein observed. It “is still subject to the wellbeing of Quebec citizens and our democratic values.
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