The Same Drugs: Do Trudeau's new travel restrictions violate the Charter?

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On Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new travel restrictions in Canada, including forcing Canadians returning home to quarantine in a government-designated hotel, on their own dime, which Trudeau promises will cost at least $2000.

This is despite the fact that international travel accounts for just two per cent of COVID-19 cases in Canada.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7607191/covid-canada-international-travel-restrictions/

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is fighting back, having already mounted a number of challenges in response to Covid-related restrictions, and recently announced that immediate legal action is being prepared against the Trudeau government over the declaration that Canadian residents will be subjected to mandatory quarantine, at their own expense, after returning from international travel, regardless of their negative COVID status: https://www.jccf.ca/federal-government-faces-imminent-lawsuit-over-unlawful-confinement-of-returning-canadian-travelers/

I spoke with Lisa Bildy on Sunday about The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the lockdown measures across Canada, and Trudeau's travel restrictions.

Lisa Bildy graduated from Western Law school in 1993, and was called to the Ontario bar in 1995. She practiced for a number of years with a small litigation firm, where she did considerable trial work primarily in the areas of family and personal injury law. Lisa has worked with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms since 2019.

More from the JCCF on Covid-related restrictions and lockdown measures in Canada: https://www.jccf.ca/covid-restrictions-are-the-most-severe-violation-of-human-rights-canadians-have-faced-and-its-time-to-fight-back/

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