Pro-freedom lawyers’ group: Ontario lockdown is ‘unjustified violation’ of Charter freedoms
Dire predictions never materialized as a result of the COVID-19 virus, but restrictions on movement and gatherings remain in place.
(LifeSiteNews) — The Justice Centre has released a comprehensive Charter analysis of the violations of Ontarians’ freedoms to move, travel, assemble, associate and worship, as protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Entitled “Unprecedented and Unjustified,” the Charter analysis of Ontario’s response to COVID-19 addresses:
- the nature of the government’s lockdown measures and how they violate Charter freedoms;
- the Charter’s requirement of government to justify these violations;
- the inaccurate claims made about COVID-19 in March and April 2020;
- the economic harm caused by lockdown measures;
- the relationship between a prosperous economy and the ability to pay for good health care;
- the negative impact of the lockdown measures on health care; and
- a detailed analysis of the Command Table’s April 3 COVID-19 modelling and April 20 COVID-19 modelling.
“Unprecedented and Unjustified” questions whether the Ontario government has properly considered COVID-19 within its global and historical context. The 1957-58 “Asian flu” and the 1968-69 “Hong Kong flu” each claimed one million lives around the world, when the world population was less than half of what it is today. In more average years, the flu sadly takes between 291,000 and 646,000 lives, most of them vulnerable elderly people who are already sick with one or more serious health conditions.
Likewise, the primary impact of COVID-19 has been on residents in long-term care homes – approximately 75 percent of all deaths have occurred in these homes, the population of which represents approximately half a percent of all Ontarians.
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