KEVIN MARTIN: Alberta judge rules desperate COVID times call for desperate COVID measures
That may open the door for Premier Danielle Smith to look at amending the provincial legislation to give more power to elected officials to determine necessary restrictions during the time of a pandemic, but it doesn’t make such measures unlawful.
“While they may have infringed certain of the applicants’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms … these limitations were amply and demonstrably justified as reasonable limits in a free and democratic society.”Article content As it turns out, he didn’t have the authority to do so under the Public Health Act, which left that decision solely to Hinshaw at the time.
“Although Dr. Hinshaw was maligned during the pandemic and afterwards as the symbol of the restrictions, she was not in fact the final decision-maker,” the judge wrote.
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