Once again, we see federal courts in Canada strike down arguments of covid-era charter violations as moot.
In a case of 11 Canadians, each fined up to $3000 for contraventions to the Quarantine Act, Justice Avvy Yao-Yao Go said that the argument of infringements to the charter rights of the applicants is now “moot” since mask and vaccine mandates have since been lifted.
The Supreme Court has officially ended any hope of appeal, refusing to hear from several church leaders issued fines worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for opposing provincial mandates, stating “it is not a matter of national public interest to pursue.”
Eric Lemmon, charged with mischief and disobeying a court order for allegedly blocking traffic on the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, saw his charges dismissed when it was determined by Crown prosecutors that “there was no reasonable prospect of conviction”.
A veteran of the CAF, with support from The Democracy Fund (TDF), have secured a stay of charges for the $5750 ticket issued for failing to present a PCR test upon return to Canada in 2021.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) filed a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court against the government for their mandatory application of the ArriveCAN app. Regrettably, with the mandate withdrawn at the time the case was heard, the argument was declared moot, and the case was dismissed.