Quebec minister ordered to personally pay $60,000 for cancelling pro-life event

Former Quebec tourism minister Caroline Proulx has been ordered to personally pay more than $60,000 in damages after a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled she unlawfully cancelled a Christian conference because of its pro-life message. In a decision released Friday, Justice Alain Trudel found Proulx acted "in an arbitrary and abusive manner" when she ordered Quebec City's convention centre to cancel a rental agreement for Harvest Ministries International's "Faith, Fire, and Freedom" conference just 10 days before it was scheduled to begin. The British Columbia-based Christian ministry had booked the Quebec City Convention Centre for a 10-day event in June...