Tag: Charter of Rights

Lawyers for Patient Denied Transplant for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination Considering Next Steps

November 14, 2022
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EDMONTON—The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is deliberating whether to take the Alberta Court of Appeal’s ruling to deny a woman who is refusing COVID-19 vaccination an organ transplant to the Supreme Court. On Nov. 8, the appeal court upheld a lower court’s decision to deny Sheila Lewis’s request to return to the top of the…

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The Cruel Suppression of Tamara Lich’s Freedom of Speech

October 14, 2022
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Commentary “Everyone,” says the Charter of Rights, has the fundamental freedom “of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.” Everyone, that is, except Tamara Lich, one of the organizers of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa in January and February. Most egregiously, under her bail conditions…

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Mandatory Vaccination Policies Disregard Canadians’ Constitutional Rights

September 5, 2021
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Commentary Provinces across Canada have now announced that only the vaccinated can participate in basic aspects of society, like dining at a restaurant, going to a gym, playing a team sport, or attending a wedding.  Governments in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia have set aside decades of legal protections for personal and bodily autonomy…

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