It’s Shuffle Season! Canada’s Prime Minister has shuffled his cabinet, and the new Minister of Heritage has an opportunity to clean up his predecessor’s mess. In this episode of the Freedom Update, Christine gives her top 3 pieces of advice for the new Heritage Minister.…
In this episode of the Freedom Update, Christine explains how a case about the size of Toronto City Council went all the way to the Supreme Court. The case was a victory for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who was successful in reducing the size…
The BC Vaccine Passports are the worst in Canada, and in this video I explain exactly why. The policy has huge problems, beyond just my broad concerns about vaccine passports. The BC passport does not have any automatic exemptions for people who cannot be…
In this episode of the Freedom Update, I give an update on provinces that are now implementing vaccine passport policies. I outline some of my major concerns with the policy, and where I think there is the biggest opportunity for a legal challenge. I…
In this video I discuss a new federal government proposal to censor and regulate speech online in Canada. The new proposal is not yet a law, and the government is taking online comments. The proposal is to regulate what the government calls “online harms”…
In this week’s video, Christine Van Geyn talks about what vaccine passports are, and some of the constitutional and practical problems created by these types of policies. Namely: poor implementation a lack of exemptions for religious or medical reasons and an intrusion into our…
In this week’s video freedom update, Christine Van Geyn talks about the result in the federal quarantine hotel case and about an excellent new decision about civil forfeiture. What rules need to apply when the government takes private property?
In the May Freedom Update, Christine gives a sneak peek at the details of a new CCF case challenging the Ontario stay at home order and the prohibition on outdoor protests. You can learn more about the case at and stay tuned for more…
We are in court today, March 19, for the second time this week! On Tuesday we were participating in an appeal at the Supreme Court and today we are in court fighting the federal quarantine hotels. Christine breaks down both cases in this edition of…
We have launched a constitutional challenge of the federal quarantine hotel policy, which imposes a punitive cost of up to $2,000 per traveller entering Canada. We have filed this challenge with five individuals who are travelling for compassionate reasons. In this video, CCF Litigation Director…
