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Court rules Canadian government violated charter
The Light
|Issue 42: February 2024
IN February 2022, amid the cross-country freedom convoy trucker protests in Ottawa against covid-19 vaccine mandates, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an overreaching decision.
He invoked the Emergencies Act, and froze people's bank accounts as a response to this challenge to his policies, in a widespread attempt to silence and crush his critics. However, the Emergencies Act was declared unreasonable, unjustified, and violated the Charter in a verdict just published.
Presiding over the case, Federal Court Justice, Richard Mosley, found that whereas the Freedom Convoy protests generated harm, they did not elevate to a threat against national security, as per the legal definition.
Invoking the Emergencies Act in such a scenario, according to Mosley, lacked the attributes of sound decision-making.
This story is from the Issue 42: February 2024 edition of The Light.
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