Courtesy of Justice Centre
August 18, 2022
CALGARY: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms filed its legal Argument and over 14,000 pages of Evidence as part of an ongoing legal challenge on behalf of the Honourable Brian Peckford, the Honourable Maxime Bernier, and four other Canadians, to strike down the federal government’s mandatory Covid vaccine requirements for air travellers (the “Travel Ban”). Lawyers for the Justice Centre spent all of June 2022 in extensive cross examinations of 16 witnesses including senior federal government officials and five expert witnesses.
Earlier this month, on August 9, 2022, the Justice Centre filed a Response to the Federal Government’s motion to strike the ongoing legal challenge. The response reads in part, “The Federal Government has maintained that the impacts of Covid represent a public health emergency, which justifies impositions on the rights and freedoms of Canadians at an unprecedented level. The Covid pandemic and restrictions have caused much division in Canada. These Applicants have applied to this Court to review the Federal Government’s actions, secure their rights and bring clarity and finality to a controversial and divisive topic that has had far reaching impacts throughout all of Canada. It is these Applicants’ position that without a hearing on the merits of this matter, in an open and transparent court, it would erode the democratic foundation of our society.”
Under cross examination, Dr. Lisa Waddell, senior epidemiologist, and team lead at the Public Health Agency of Canada (“PHAC”) admitted that vaccinating air travellers was not recommended by PHAC. Dr. Waddell was asked whether vaccination is an effective mitigation measure for air travel and she testified as follows: “…there wasn’t a lot of evidence on that so, as a strategy as a whole, it has not been evaluated in the literature and therefore is not elaborated in the review. (Waddell Cross Examination Transcript – page 92 lines 22-25, Part 7.)
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