No, you don’t have a constitutional right to a bike lane

In this video, Christine Van Geyn explains the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision on Toronto’s bike lanes, which confirms that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to bike lanes.

The Canadian Constitution Foundation intervened to argue that requiring the government to maintain bike lanes amounts to a positive rights claim. The Court agreed that governments must remain free to change ordinary policy choices, reinforcing an important distinction between constitutional rights and political decisions.

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