The federal government has filed an appeal to contest a federal court’s decision that said the use of the Emergencies Act in early 2022 to clear convoy protesters was unreasonable and infringed on Charter rights.
A spokesperson for the department of justice confirmed that the appeal was filed on Thursday.
In January, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley ruled that while the protests against the federal government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic “reflected an unacceptable breakdown of public order,” the invocation of the Emergencies Act “does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility.”
Ultimately, there “was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies
