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Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Quebec have erected police roadblocks and checkpoints along their interprovincial boundreies in order to vet and reduce interprovincial travel deemed non-essential during the Covid-19 crisis. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has publicly supported and applauded these moves by the provinces.
COVID-19 emergency checkpoints strain long-standing free movement between provinces | National Post
The problem is these actions may violate sections 6.2 and 6.3 of the Canadian Constitutional Act of 1982, found on page 55 of the linked document below. Section 6, which guarantees mobility rights in Canada, cannot be overridden by the "Not Withstanding Clause" of Section 33 in the same act found on page 62 of the link below.
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Canada_2011.pdf?lang=en
So are the provinces breaking the law and violating the constitution by closing interprovincial boundries? Is the Canadian Federal Government aiding and abetting provincial governments to break the law? Are the rights and freedoms of Canadians of all provinces and territories at serious risk from the precedents being set here by the provincial and Federal governments during this crisis?
What say you?
COVID-19 emergency checkpoints strain long-standing free movement between provinces | National Post
The problem is these actions may violate sections 6.2 and 6.3 of the Canadian Constitutional Act of 1982, found on page 55 of the linked document below. Section 6, which guarantees mobility rights in Canada, cannot be overridden by the "Not Withstanding Clause" of Section 33 in the same act found on page 62 of the link below.
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Canada_2011.pdf?lang=en
So are the provinces breaking the law and violating the constitution by closing interprovincial boundries? Is the Canadian Federal Government aiding and abetting provincial governments to break the law? Are the rights and freedoms of Canadians of all provinces and territories at serious risk from the precedents being set here by the provincial and Federal governments during this crisis?
What say you?
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