Posted on 06/18/2021 11:16:12 AM PDT by george76
Nevertheless, the court raised concerns about a pastor’s rights being violated when she was confined to a quarantine hotel against her will..
Canada’s federal court has ruled that quarantine hotels imposed by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since January — and for which travelers must pay — are constitutional. The court, however, also ruled that a pastor’s rights were violated when she was confined to a quarantine hotel against her will.
Chief Justice of the Federal Court Paul Crampton issued the ruling today in response to four separate legal challenges with 14 applicants against the mandatory quarantine hotels.
The impugned measures were within the authority of the AIC [Governor in Council, in this context know as the Administrator in Council] and were within the jurisdiction of the federal government. Finally, the impugned measures do not contravene section 1(a) of the Bill of Rights. Accordingly, these Applications will be dismissed,” concluded Crampton.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) was part of the lawsuit against the federal government and represented 10 clients.
One of its clients included Pastor Nicole Mathis. The JCCF said she “was forced against her will” into a “federal quarantine facility and detained for three nights” because her negative COVID-19 test was not accepted by Canadian Public Health officials.
The JCCF noted it was pleased that the court found that Mathis’ rights were “unjustifiably infringed by authorities” because she was not informed of her right to counsel “upon detention,” and that her family was not informed where she was being taken to.
Crampton concluded, “Those violations of Ms. Mathis’ rights cannot be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. The evidence establishes that the first of those violations has since been remedied by the requirement that travelers who are required to stay in a GAA must book their own reservation there.”
The JCCF said it is “disappointed with the Federal Court ruling” and that the decision “will be reviewed thoroughly with a view to appeal.”
“Never in post Charter history have law-abiding Canadians been detained en masse against their will, with no regard for the fundamental freedoms this country was founded on,” said JCCF lawyer and Litigation Director Jay Cameron.
“The Federal Court’s finding that these heavy-handed measures are constitutional is deeply concerning. Canadians continue to wait anxiously for the courts of the land to draw boundaries around the increasingly authoritarian measures of government regarding Covid. We are reviewing the decision carefully.”
The JCCF had argued that “mandatory quarantine of law-abiding Canadian citizens in federally mandated facilities violated their rights to enter and leave Canada freely pursuant to their rights under S. 6(1) of the Charter.”
“It violated their rights not to be arbitrarily detained, their right to speak to counsel upon their detention and their rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and the right to have their detention contested in court,” noted the JCCF.
In early January, the Canadian federal government enacted new rules which required all air travelers coming into Canada to present a negative PCR or LAMP COVID-19 test to their airline before being allowed to board their flight.
In late January, the government announced that “all air travellers … with very limited exceptions” would have to submit to a mandatory hotel quarantine for at least three nights while waiting for test results from a mandatory COVID-19 test given upon arrival.
Before arrival in Canada, passengers must reserve online and pay for a spot at a government-approved hotel. If a negative test result comes in during the three-day stay, a person is then permitted to leave the hotel, but is told to quarantine at home for 14 days.
Only four airports in Canada — Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal — currently service international flights.
The government recently increased the fines for those who do not comply with the quarantine rules from $3,000 to $5,000
Canada’s Health Minister Patty Hajdu recently confirmed that, starting in early July, Canadians who have had the full two doses of a COVID-19 shot do not have to quarantine for 14 days, as long as they produce a negative test.
Trudeau recently said he was looking to ease border restrictions, but only for those who had been “fully vaccinated.”
Today, the Trudeau government decided to extend Canada’s border closure with the United States until July 21. The current closure agreement was set to expire on June 21.
In a Parliamentary system Nazi Death Camps would be “constitutional”.
You can check in anytime you like,
but you can never leave.
Canada, not the US. Every now and then the differences in our constitutions get clearly compared and Canada’s comes up wanting - severely.
Just ask Jordan Peterson.
So any ‘science’ they concoct can give them all they need to imprison you with zero due process.
Oh, Canada…….
I see what you did there.
If anyone hasn’t noticed since the rest of the pastor and other events Canada is now full on communist
I have some Canadian born friends in this country you said they will never ever ever go back no matter what
The Democrats would love to do the same kind of things in this country but first of all they can actually get popular support to do it they can only cheat to get elected
And secondly in the United States of America we have the Second Amendment in this country is very heavily armed with the patriots who are just ready to gun down communists ; if given the chance
What was witnessed on January 6 was the entire federal government and the FBI doing their dead level best to try to incite us patriots to an armed insurrection and we did not bite
They probably do not know but they should understand that when it does come down to it they will all be dead
We not only have all the weapons and all the ammunition but all of the training as well
Canada’s Constitution is a useful as HIPPA laws.
You take a hotel from the legal owners and mandate they populate it with those who can’t pay?
CA has a Soviet Constitution.
As you know this is my country, Canada, and I am not even remotely surprised at this ruling. Canada is essentially a fascist state now.
Sort of feel that way, but not now that the USA electoral system is firmly in the hands of the Democrats. It would be leaping out of the pan into the fire. My country is hooped and I have nowhere to go. And don’t say Switzerland. Anyone who thinks with the onset of a New World Order, that that order would just stand by and tolerate ANY country that breaks the other way are deluded.
Remember hear my Canadian friend that the population of this country does not support the Democratic Party it is only a couple of states
The fraud committed in the last election was unbelievable and it slowly but surely being uncovered
The most important point to understand though is that United States citizens in general value greatly freedom and will fight to defend it
More than 50% of this nation including liberals are heavily armed and there will be no communist takeover of this country
So I suggest coming to the states and visiting some more Republican wines and you’ll get a feel for what America is like just don’t go to California or New York
And I shouldn’t even say that you can go to anywhere in New York that’s upstate or anywhere in California that’s not San Francisco Los Angeles or Sacramento and you’ll run into patriots left and right
Just a little reminder, everything Hitler did was fully legal under German law.
Canada has a Constitution?
Liberal women think Trudeau is cute and feel comforted by control and emotionalism. The Canadian men are no more than cucks now.
If you want to know what the “leaders” have planned for us then you just look to Canada. They have always been ahead of us in the plan.
If we let the sham election stand and don’t use our 2nd amendment rights to re-instate the duly re-elected president, I doubt very seriously we’re man enough to keep from being mass detained.
Mandatory? Mandatory this pal.
Maybe you all in Canada will put up with this kind of crap but no way Jose we do so here in the U.S.A.
That is very reassuring to hear. Been to WA, OR, CA, Idaho, CO, WY, MO, and NM. My wife was from CO and sad to see it is turning into a liberal state.
Canadians don’t even realize there’s a problem. We are pretty ambivalent about or lack of speech and gun rights.
I know my parents have a trailer in Palm Springs. Lots of Canadians however my parents say if pushed, most Americans they talk to there, will tell them the country is in a poor place and are Trump supporters. But they keep their politics to themselves unless asked. There is one Canadian guy that apparently starts American bashing and then all the Americans just get out of the pool or hot tub and leave him there. Other Canadians try to tell him to shut er down but he just doesn’t get it, I guess.
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