Yesterday, associate Chief Justice of the federal court Jocelyn Gagne dismissed the Peckford Charter challenge (along with the three other related lawsuits) concerning the federal Liberal government’s travel ban against unvaccinated Canadians. The Honourable Brian Peckford is the last surviving signatory to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (and also Chairman of TBOF).
The case was also raising critical questions over how much governments can restrict our Charter freedoms on the basis of “the science”, without every showing Canadians the science they are relying on.
In short, to Justice Gagne, the most unprecedented government restrictions of civil liberties since the FLQ crisis in the 1970s are moot now, covid is over. Harms from government policies are hypothetical or abstract.
Imagine the Court ruling on the government’s use of residential schools as “moot”. Stop living in the past! The schools are closed! It was a different government!
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