The case was brought by a far-left organization (good for them) as well as another one that I am not familiar with:
The case was brought forward by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation and individuals who argued Ottawa did not meet the legal threshold when it invoked the legislation, which had never been used before.
The judgment:
In order to declare a public order emergency, the Emergencies Act requires that there be an emergency that arises from threats to the security of Canada that are so serious as to be a national emergency. The Act defers to CSIS's definition of threats to the security of Canada.
Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley said the situation created by the protests did not meet that threshold.
I have concluded that the decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness – justification, transparency and intelligibility – and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration, he said in his decision.
The article says that there is more to come.
I'm actually amazed, not that I expect anything from Western states, but that there is at least some recognition of the injustice that was done to these people.
The main lawyer - Christina Van Guyen? - used to post updates after each day in court on YT all the time.
I'd believe that the CCLA is pretty leftist, because IIRC, they didn't comment publicly on any COVID overreach or the trucker protest until Trudeau declared martial law, which was two weeks into the protest.
The CCF seems normie but more centrist. More in the Justice Center for Constitutionial Freedoms and The Democracy Fund (which lean more right) tier.
The case was brought by a far-left organization (good for them) as well as another one that I am not familiar with:
The judgment:
The article says that there is more to come.
I'm actually amazed, not that I expect anything from Western states, but that there is at least some recognition of the injustice that was done to these people.
The CCF AFAICT is a one-woman org.
The main lawyer - Christina Van Guyen? - used to post updates after each day in court on YT all the time.
I'd believe that the CCLA is pretty leftist, because IIRC, they didn't comment publicly on any COVID overreach or the trucker protest until Trudeau declared martial law, which was two weeks into the protest.
The CCF seems normie but more centrist. More in the Justice Center for Constitutionial Freedoms and The Democracy Fund (which lean more right) tier.