Emergency Act
In Spotlight: Emergency Act - unlawful "ultra vires"
23 JAN 2024: The Federal Court of Canada has ruled the invocation of the Emergencies Act an abuse of power, discriminatory, unconstitutional, beyond the legal power or authority, unlawful, and illegal.
In his ruling, Justice Richard Mosley declared that:
"the decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility — and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration."
4. "the decision to issue the Proclamation and the associated Regulations and Order was unreasonable and ultra vires the Emergencies Act;"
5." that the Regulations infringed section 2 (b) of the Charter and declared that the Order infringed section 8 of the Charter and that neither infringement was justified under section 1;"
Full decision: https://theccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/EA-challenge-fed-court-reasons-FINAL.pdf
Blog: https://ivim.substack.com/p/breaking-ottawas-use-of-emergencies
FAQ: https://ccla.org/major-cases-reports/emergencies-act-major-cases-reports/emergencies-act-faqs/
Full analysis: https://ccla.org/press-release/emergency-is-not-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-federal-court-grants-victory-to-ccla-in-emergencies-act-challenge/