Québec Superior Court dismisses appeal against Covid curfew

Justice Watch: Justice Carl Thibault upholds Quebec's Covid curfew despite finding it violated Charter rights

Subhead:Superior Court says unprecedented pandemic restrictions infringed Canadians' constitutional freedoms but were justified during the public health emergency.#   The Quebec Superior Court has dismissed an appeal challenging Quebec's controversial COVID-19 curfew, ruling that while the unprecedented measure violated several Charter rights, those infringements were justified under the Constitution because of the pandemic. In a decision releas…

Québec Superior Court dismisses appeal against Covid curfew

AMOS, QC: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the Superior Court of Québec has dismissed Stéphanie Pépin’s appeal challenging Québec’s Covid curfew. While the Court upheld the curfew as a justified limit on constitutional freedoms during the Covid pandemic, it also affirmed that the curfew infringed Ms. Pépin’s rights to liberty, freedom of expression, and freedom of peaceful assembly protected by the Canadian Charter o…