WINNIPEG --
A constitutional challenge calling on the courts to strike down parts of the province’s public health act is back on the docket Monday.
The challenge was launched by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms on behalf of seven Manitoba churches, a minister, a deacon and a man who was fined for attending an anti-lockdown rally in Steinbach. It will focus on the justification of the province’s lockdown measures.
The centre argues Manitoba’s lockdown measures are unjustified and violate some charter-protected freedoms like religion, expression and peaceful assembly. The centre’s lawyers also argue the province failed to consider the societal consequences the lockdown measures brought about.