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CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Top constitutional lawyers say the Canadian federal government’s much-maligned ArriveCAN travel app violates one’s constitutional rights, adding that people’s civil liberties on paper have been rendered ‘meaningless effectively in the real world” because of COVID.
“(ArriveCAN) it’s a violation of Section 6, sub one (of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms), which is the right to leave or enter the country,” Alberta-based civil liberties lawyer James Kitchen told LifeSiteNews.
“There is very little case law on this. The Charter is relatively young in history, it’s only 40 years old, and during those 40 years we have not had a lot of authoritarian governments with widespread liberty violations until the last few years.”
Kitchen continued, saying, “So, it has never been really tested, a lot of those rights have not really come up yet in court.”
ArriveCAN was launched in April 2020 by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and made mandatory in November 2020.
“If you don’t submit your travel information and proof of vaccination using ArriveCAN, you could be fined $5,000,” the government says.
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