Federal Court rules isolation hotels violate Charter protection against arbitrary detention, declines to issue injunction
TORONTO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms today announces that the Federal Court has released the Decision on the interim injunction regarding the federal hotel quarantine and quarantine facility policies. The interim injunction would have applied to nine Justice Centre clients who travelled under different sets of circumstances and found themselves facing detention in federal facilities upon arrival in Canada. While the Court did not issue the interim injunction, it found that both Charter Section 7- the right to life liberty and security of person, and Section 9 - the right no...