Federal Government Appeals Emergencies Act Ruling to Supreme Court of Canada
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the federal government waited until the last possible moment to appeal the Emergencies Act decision.
In January 2026, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the government’s appeal, upholding an earlier ruling that the 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act was unreasonable and unconstitutional.
That leaves the government having lost at both the Federal Court (2024) and the Federal Court of Appeal (2026).
On March 17th, 2026, the government filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
What happens next is straightforward: the Supreme Court must decide whether to grant leave—meaning whether it will agree to hear the case. If it declines, the lower court rulings stand; if it agrees, the case moves forward to a full appeal.
Stay tuned for updates on the progress on the appeal.
The Ben Franklin quote comes to mind; “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” ….from a letter Franklin wrote in 1755 to the Pennsylvania Assembly during the French and Indian War.
The Franklin quote applied to the trucker freedom convoy as a reminder that when a society prioritizes a specific definition of “safety” (…going along with forcing people to get the jab) to the point of stripping away the dignity and livelihood of a segment of its population, it risks eroding the very liberties it claims to protect.