There is a popular maxim in common law systems, “everything which is not forbidden is allowed”. The idea is that in liberal democracies we are inherently and naturally free to do anything, so long as it is not expressly prohibited by law. Ontario has now flipped that maxim on its…
It has become obvious that politicians and public health officials are grasping at straws, as existing measures have proved unable to stop the spike in COVID cases. And as current strategies fail, new lockdown measures are being imposed that limit our rights and bear little connection to transmission. As the…
There has been a lot of buzz about the constitutionality of government responses to COVID, but where do things really stand? Are lockdowns, mandatory masks, travel restrictions and the accompanying penalties really a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The Charter provides an explicit guarantee of political…
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