Section 1 of the charter requires any limitation to a chartered right and freedom to be "Demonstrably justified." The travel mandates were not demonstrably justified. Quite the opposite actually.
https://www.thefp.com/p/court-documents ... das-travel
Also, keep in mind that that case was dismissed for being "moot" (the travel mandates were suspended). It WAS NOT dismissed because the government proved that they satisfy the Oakes test. The same goes for Brian Peckfords case. A man that knows a thing or two about the Charter.
Additionally, there are multiple class action lawsuits in the works against the Federal government over travel mandates and federal worker mandates.
Canada's judicial system is nothing like our neighbors to the south. It will take time, but with patience and as we learn, the government and corporations will eventually run out of strategies to avoid accountability. It just takes time and patience.
Oh, and as far as your "workplace safety" remark? Well, that's just absurd. Canada's airline that claimed to be the "world's most vaccinated airline" had 183 crew members book off with covid in December of 2021; the month they became the world's most vaccinated airline. From January 2022 to March 2022 they also broke Covid book off records.
So to claim that any of this was based on science or that workplace safety was enhanced in any way is patently false.


 



 
 

