Mon Sep 26, 2022 – 12:15 pm EDTMon Sep 26, 2022 – 12:35 pm EDT
NORFOLK, Ontario (Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms) — The Justice Centre is pleased to announce that the Crown has dropped the charges against former Member of Provincial Parliament Randy Hiller, former Member of Parliament Derek Sloan, Pastor Heinrich Hildebrandt, and private citizen Dan Stasko.
The four men were allegedly involved in peaceful rallies against COVID measures in June 2021 and were charged with violating public health orders under the Reopening Ontario Act. After negotiations with Bally Hundal, a lawyer retained by the Justice Centre, the Crown dropped all charges, stating that prosecution was no longer in the public interest.
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Ontario has implemented lockdowns since the beginning of the pandemic and placed significant restrictions on the right to peaceful protest. In June 2021, the four men were charged for participating in a peaceful demonstration in Norfolk, Ontario. There were approximately 200-300 people at this outdoor demonstration against the COVID measures implemented by the Ontario government.
Hillier, Sloan, Hildebrandt and Stasko were concerned with the COVID restrictions – health orders
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