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Legal challenges to the federal quarantine hotel policy continue to work their way through the courts, with another decision that was released on April 23. This decision was a minor procedural setback that will not have a bearing on the challenge to the policy. But the decision has attracted significant attention and is worth understanding.
Friday’s decision was about a request by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) and some individual travellers to temporarily suspend the quarantine hotel policy until the full legal challenge can be heard, later this year. The JCCF and these travellers were seeking what is called an injunction, which would suspend the quarantine hotel policy, because individuals are being harmed while they wait for the full challenge to be heard.
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Federal Court judge dismisses bid to halt hotel quarantines
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Apr 26, 2021 at 12:58 pm EDT
OTTAWA A group of air travellers has lost a Federal Court bid for an interim injunction to prohibit hotel quarantines for returning passengers.
Justice William Pentney says in a written ruling that the three-day stay in federally designated facilities does not put Canadians’ security at significant risk.
The mandatory quarantine part of a two-week self-isolation regime for travellers flying back from abroad came into effect on Feb. 22 following federal measures announced the previous month.
It has faced some backlash from opposition MPs, civil liberties groups and health experts for either coming too late, encroaching on individual freedoms or not going far enough.