The applicants argue Canadians deserve to receive court rulings regarding any emergency orders that violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In 2021, the Government of Canada required travellers of federally regulated transportation services (air, rail and marine) to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination, which resulted in preventing roughly 5.2 million Canadians from travelling by air and rail.

In response to these restrictions, Peckford and Bernier and other Canadians, took the federal government to court in February 2022, arguing the Charter freedoms of religion and conscience, assembly, democratic rights, mobility, security, privacy and equality of Canadians were infringed.

The government suspended the travel vaccine restrictions but said it would not hesitate to reinstate them if it considered it necessary. The federal government then moved to have Peckford’s challenge struck for mootness (irrelevance). The Crown argued the travel restrictions had been lifted and should not take up further court resources. The Federal Court agreed and the Federal Court of Appeal affirmed this lower court ruling.

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