Thu Aug 17, 2023 – 7:49 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian federal court denied a case challenging COVID-era jab quarantine mandates, which resulted in thousands being fined millions of dollars, as not needed because authorities have since dropped such dictates.
As per Blacklock’s Reporter, Justice Avvy Yao-Yao Go ruled that because the COVID jab and mask mandates have now been lifted, arguments about whether or not the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated Canadians’ Charter of Rights was not needed.
“There is no longer a live controversy,” Go wrote.
Lawyers representing 11 Canadians who challenged federal authorities over the quarantine rules had argued that unless the “Court grapples with a test case, even though it may be moot, the constitutionality of the measures may never be examined.”
Thousands of Canadians were fined as much as $3,000 under the Quarantine Act, which was in place since mid-2020 before it was suspended on October 1, 2022. There are currently no COVID restrictions for entering or leaving the country.
The much-maligned ArriveCAN travel app was also made optional, and a jab mandate for foreign visitors to enter Canada was removed.
The Quarantine Act was used by the federal government
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