Wed Sep 14, 2022 – 5:04 pm EDT
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (LifeSiteNews) – Maxime Bernier, the head of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), is in a Saskatchewan court battling a COVID ticket given to him for attending a freedom rally and has vowed to fight for the right to freedom of assembly to ensure Canadians’ free speech is protected.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is representing Bernier and 22 others who were charged in May 2021 for attending a pro-freedom, anti-lockdown rally in Saskatoon.
Bernier noted on Twitter yesterday that with the help of the JCCF they will be arguing that the defendants’ constitutional rights, under Section 2C of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, were violated.
“In a democratic country, you must have the right to protest against draconian measures. And that’s what we did. And that’s why I’m very proud of these 50 extraordinary Canadians that did that with me,” Bernier said.
“In a democratic country, you must be able to protest against a tyrannical government. That’s what we did. And that’s important also to do that fight in the court, because we want to have a legal precedent.”
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