Federal Court decision helps rehabilitate the rule of law in Canada.

TORONTO: A Federal Court Judge has declared that the Liberal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy protestors was both unreasonable and unconstitutional.

In his decision of almost 200 pages, Justice Mosley of the Federal Court of Canada concludes that there was no national emergency that seriously endangered the lives, health and safety of Canadians and that there were no reasonable grounds to believe that there was a threat to national security, as defined by the Emergencies Act and the CSIS Act. This was the legal position that The Democracy Fund (TDF) lawyers argued before Commissioner Rouleau at the Public Order Emergency Inquiry in 2022.

Significantly, Justice Mosley found that the Emergency Measures Regulations and the Emergency Economic Measures Order, made by the Federal Government under the emergency legislation, infringed the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.