The Canadian Constitution Foundation was in the Federal Court on August 8 seeking the disclosure of information which goes to the heart of the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act on February, 14, 2022.
The CCF seeks an order for the Attorney General to deliver unredacted documents, including minutes of the Incident Response Group and Cabinet meetings leading up to the declaration of the Emergencies Act.
The government invoked cabinet confidence, and subsequently, national security privilege over many documents relevant to a judge’s determination of whether the government was justified in declaring a public order emergency.
“The government’s failure to disclose wide swaths of evidence that go to the question of whether it was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act is an attempt to evade meaningful judicial review. Allowing these documents to remain secret would undermine the integrity of the proceedings in this historic matter if a litigant is pre-empted from arguing in court that the government acted unconstitutionally”, said Christine Van Geyn, the CCF’s Litigation Director.
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Watch our other videos about our legal challenge to the Trudeau government's use of the Emergencies Act here:
https://youtu.be/IBM_zlK8iUc
https://youtu.be/P8apDgisJyI
https://youtu.be/8aWoMPfgPNs
https://youtu.be/UZ76VRPTdxA
https://youtu.be/ZYudAphdBMo
https://youtu.be/MXY0KUauAJE
Here is some media coverage about our hearing:
https://nationalpost.com/news/federal-court-hears-preliminary-arguments-in-emergencies-act-legal-challenge
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/08/08/let-us-see-secret-information-about-ottawas-response-to-the-freedom-convoy-civil-liberties-groups-ask-court.html
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