The constitutional rights and freedoms of Canadians are front and centre in a flurry of legal challenges to pandemic measures, as civil liberties groups take on multiple cases they say represent unconstitutional measures implemented by authorities.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has court actions underway or pending, as of Feb. 25, against five provinces around lockdown measures it says violate Charter rights. And it’s suing the federal government for imposing mandatory hotel quarantine on travellers, among other travel restrictions.
Bruce Pardy, a law professor at Queen’s University, says the pandemic has sparked “the most widespread violations of civil liberties in Canadian history,” and he worries that citizens have reached a “psychological threshold” where people become accustomed to having their basic rights bypassed.
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