OPINION: Rogue leaders bedevil two civil liberties organizations
Yet, the responses of the two different organizations couldn’t have been more different. The most recent rogue was John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. On July 12, he admitted that he had hired a private eye to not only spy on senior government officials in Manitoba to see if they were complying with COVID-19 restrictions, but on Glenn Joyal, chief justice of Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench. Joyal, who is hearing the case of seven rural churches that violated COVID restrictions by staying open, raised the matter in court, where Justice Centre lawye...