Christmas Criminalized in Canada

Court to hear challenge to Alberta government cancelling Christmas Case is Monday, Dec 21, 2020 at 9:30 AM MST

Dec 16th, 2020

EDMONTON: The Justice Centre filed a court challenge on December 7, 2020 to Orders made by the Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) to end the lockdown in Alberta. The Justice Centre is representing two churches and two individuals alongside Alberta law firm Rath & Company, who represents another individual.

An injunction application to temporarily stay select restrictions imposed by the CMOH has also been filed by the Applicants. Justice Centre lawyer James Kitchen will be in virtual court on the morning of Monday, December 21 at the Calgary Court of Queen’s Bench to make submissions regarding the injunction application. The hearing is open to media and the public and starts at 9:30 a.m. (The hearing can be accessed via this link, but all non-lawyers must submit a form prior to the hearing in order to be permitted access by the Court. Please connect to the courtroom 15 minutes prior to the start of the hearing and ensure your microphone is muted. More information relating to Webex protocols and procedures can be accessed here).

Among other things, the Justice Centre will argue that the Court should lift restrictions that attempt to outlaw healthy friends and family from gathering at each other’s homes to celebrate Christmas, and the public health order that prohibits all outdoor gatherings. Under this Order, grandparents cannot go visit their grandchildren, and immediate family cannot be together if they do not live in the same household.

Since March 16, 2020, Alberta’s CMOH Dr. Deena Hinshaw has pronounced 42 public health orders that have crushed constitutionally-protected rights and freedoms as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the heart of the case is a challenge to the constitutionality of orders issued by one person without any consultation or review by the Alberta Legislature, contrary to the principles of democracy and the rule of law.

The latest CMOH Order declares illegal the celebration of Christmas among friends and family in a private home, restricts weddings and funerals to only 10 people and completely prohibits all outdoor gatherings.

The Justice Centre will argue that the CMOH Orders violate multiple Charter-protected rights, such as the right to personal liberty, the right to visit friends and family at Christmas, the right to freely practice religious beliefs and the right to peacefully assemble, associate and protest. The Justice Centre will further argue that these constitutional rights violations are not justified because lockdown measures cause far more harm than any harm from COVID-19.

“The Chief Medical Officer of Health in this Province has ridden roughshod over the rights and freedoms of Albertans, even going so far as attempting to cancel Christmas and outlaw all forms of peaceful protest. It now falls to the courts to decide if one unelected doctor can prevent millions of healthy Albertans—who are at almost no risk from COVID-19—from deciding for themselves whether to celebrate Christmas with their families in their own homes,”states Justice Centre lawyer James Kitchen.

https://www.jccf.ca/court-to-hear-challenge-to-alberta-government-cancelling-christmas/

Chief Medical BITCH Hinshaw in photo

Canada Cancels Christmas

Justice Centre files legal action against Manitoba lockdowns

Dec 10th, 2020

WINNIPEG: The Justice Centre has filed a legal action in the Court of Queen’s Bench challenging sections of The Public Health Act and Orders made by Manitoba’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Brent Roussin, to end the violation of Manitobans’ Charter freedoms. The Justice Centre is representing seven churches, a minister, a deacon, the owners of a restaurant in Winkler, Manitoba, and an individual fined for exercising his Charter rights to peacefully protest at a rally in Steinbach, Manitoba.

The Justice Centre’s filed lawsuit alleges that Orders under The Public Health Act of Manitoba are outside of the authority of Manitoba, because law-making is in the exclusive jurisdiction of the Legislature.

The lawsuit also states that Manitoba’s lockdown measures are not justified violations of the Charter-protected freedoms of conscience, religion, expression, and peaceful assembly.

The action also contends that Manitoba and Dr. Roussin failed to consider the collateral social and health costs of locking down society.

“Locking down the majority of a healthy society is not necessary to protect those most at risk from COVID-19. The lockdowns are devastating society on multiple socio-economic and constitutional levels, and harming the well-being of citizens,” states Allison Pejovic, Staff Lawyer for the Justice Centre.

The lawsuit claims that the PCR Test, the tool used to diagnose COVID-19 in Manitoba, produces unreliable and misleading data and that Manitoba and Dr. Roussin knew or ought to have known of this unreliability.

The legal action in Manitoba follows legal action filed against the Alberta government on December 4, 2020. The Manitoba legal challenge is scheduled for a short hearing on December 17, 2020 in order for the parties to discuss preliminary scheduling matters with a judge. The full hearing on the constitutional issues will be heard sometime in 2021. A date has not yet been set.

The Justice Centre has been inundated with hundreds of emails from people in Manitoba who are being financially ruined by lockdowns, suffering harm to mental health, losing their businesses, unable to see their elderly parents, and being denied critical health care for conditions other than COVID-19. The government has told stores what they can sell, and restricted the sale of items deemed by Dr. Roussin as “non-essential” such as books, makeup, toys, and other everyday products.

Dr. Roussin has stated that pursuant to the public health orders, only household members are allowed indoors or outdoors on Manitobans’ own properties. “So you couldn’t have people over that are not household members in your garage, you couldn’t have them in the back for a fire,” he told CTV news on December 9, 2020. On December 8 the Manitoba government announced it had extended restrictions into the New Year on January 8, 2021, effectively cancelling any gathering with extended family over Christmas.

“Politicians have not put forward any persuasive evidence that lockdowns have actually saved lives. At the same time, there is no question that lockdowns have caused grave harm to millions of Canadians suffering unemployment, poverty, cancelled surgeries, suicides, isolation and the loss of their liberty,” states Ms. Pejovic.

“The scale of the government’s infringement on Canadians’ Charter-protected rights and freedoms as a result of Manitoba’s response to Covid-19 is unprecedented,”continues Ms. Pejovic, “It is past time that the constitutionality of these restrictions and prohibitions are adjudicated by a fair and impartial court that looks at facts and evidence.”

https://www.jccf.ca/justice-centre-files-legal-action-against-manitoba-lockdowns/

Photo is the asshole Premier Brian Pallister of Manitoba.