Section 15 of the charter is an equality section. Section 176 does not, in my view, in any way violate anybody's equality, and I don't see how it affects freedom of speech. We're talking about religious services. Churches and synagogues and all the other kinds of religious places of worship are usually open. They want everybody to come. A lot of meetings are safe. They're inside buildings and so on.
Not being allowed to disrupt the service doesn't mean you're not allowed to express opinions about the religion. It's just where and when you do it. Imagine, for example, if the religious service happens to be someone's funeral or wedding. People are gathered there. It might just be Christmas midnight mass, but that has a lot of special meaning for a lot of people. There are times and places for everything, and the place for protest is not inside a place of worship when people are there to attend service. I just think that's wrong, and I think that's why we need subsections 176(2) and 176(3) particularly. It doesn't take away anybody's equality. Nobody's trying to prevent anybody from expressing opinions, just not disrupting the religious services.