The Boucher decision was probably the most important legal victory Jehovah’s people have won in Canada. It broke the back of the Church-State attack on the liberties of Jehovah’s Witnesses and all other Canadians. Also, it modernized the law and made obsolete all the standard definitions of sedition in this land. All the lawbooks had to be changed! Dean Bowker, head of the University of Alberta Law School, stated: “A judgment like Boucher v. The King is worth a dozen declarations of the right of free speech.”

To overcome this censorship bylaw, a test case was started in Quebec City in 1947 asking that the bylaw be declared illegal. In court, three clergymen​—a Catholic priest, an Anglican cleric and a Jewish rabbi—​appeared as witnesses for the City of Quebec. They endeavored to persuade the judge to rule against Jehovah’s Witnesses. Here was further evidence that politics and the major religions were united against the true servants of God!