Canadian provincial health officers must account for their roles in authorizing COVID mandates: courts
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Judges ruled in two important court cases in Alberta and British Columbia that health officers in those provinces are not above the law and must account for their roles in enacting draconian virus rules.
(LifeSiteNews) – Judges ruled in two important court cases in Alberta and British Columbia that health officers in those provinces are not above the law and must account for their roles in enacting COVID mandates and restrictions.
The first ruling occurred last week when B.C. Justice Simon Coval ruled that its provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, must face a class-action constitutional challenge concerning the province’s COVID vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.
Henry had asked the court to throw out a petition submitted by the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy (CSASPP).
Henry’s lawyers had argued that CSASPP was a purpose-built “anti-COVID-19 measures entity,” and did not have legal standing to challenge the COVID rules.
However, Coval did not agree, stating that Henry’s vaccine mandates and health orders did indeed affect “a defined and identifiable group” and that the orders, therefore, appeared to also affect their Charter rights.
“(CSASPP) alleges that its alternative proposals reflect a superior approach, taken in other Provinces and elsewhere around the world, much less intrusive on healthcare workers’ Charter rights,” Coval said. “In my view, this raises substantial questions that meet the threshold of ‘clearly not frivolous.’”