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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and to leave Canada and return to Canada

This is false. Canadians could not board planes. How can you leave the country if you were denied access to a plane ride? This did violate the Canadian charter of human rights.

Yeah the US also blocked access to the unvaxxed, the only neighbouring country to Canada. And denying access to air travel was not done to "stop the spread of COVID". It was malice, and to make excuses for this with twisted logic is quite disturbing to say the least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you point to your right to fly on an airplane in the Charter? I'll wait...

Here is Section 6 to help you out.

You have no right to fly on an airplane or to ride on a train or a boat. You could have driven or walked to the border and left Canada if the US would take you. It wouldn't. You could have driven to the coast, bought a boat, and sailed to any country that you could reach by sea if they would take you. They wouldn't. You always had the right to leave Canada, you just didn't have the ability to leave Canada as a consequence of your choices.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OMG! So you expect people to start their own airline, buy their own yacht? You must be Trudeau's legal guy to use twisted logic to keep people from leaving the country. Unfrickin believable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry that you find the world so scary and confusing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This did violate the Canadian charter of human rights.

Do you mean the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

In the case that this article is referring to Justices Frederica Schutz, Michelle Crighton and Dawn Pentelechuk of the Alberta Court of Appeals wrote that β€œMs. Lewis’ COVID-19 vaccination status is not who she is,” the court wrote. β€œIt is not an immutable personal characteristic … her choice not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is just that β€” a choice.”

What that means is that it isn't a Charter issue because it was her choice not to be vaccinated which resulted in her being lawfully denied a transplant. It is the same for people who were not vaccinated and could not fly, it was their choice and therefore not a Charter issue.

There are excellent references available on the Justice Canada website that explain exactly what the Charter does and does not mean. Avoid Facebook because that is likely how you ended up confused in the first place and avoid the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedom website because they lose 99% of their cases because they are just a right wing extremist troll farm.