Lawsuit seeks to challenge and obtain compensation for various pandemic measures, mandates and restrictions.
B.C.’s government exceeded its powers in its COVID-19 pandemic response, a lawyer for a proposed class-action suit told a B.C. Supreme Court judge on Dec. 13.
She called the resulting response “disproportionate" and said the emergency measures were unwarranted as they did not meet reasonable public health objectives.The suit further claims British Columbia's Charter of Rights and Freedoms rights protection from unreasonably infringed freedoms; freedom of conscience and religion; thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; peaceful assembly; and of association.
Since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in March 2020, Henry has issued several orders designed to reduce the spread of the virus in the province, including requiring proof of vaccination to enter several businesses like restaurants. The so-called "vaccine passport" was in place in B.C. from September 2021 to April 2022.
Crerar explained it's not his role to make any findings of fact or determine if the actions of the public health officer “were good, bad or otherwise.” What the certification process determines, he said, is whether or not the case has all the elements needed under the Class Proceedings Act to move forward or to be ended.Other COVID-related cases B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson has already dismissed four separate challenges to B.C.
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