It is good to know that there are still people fighting for the rights of Canadians

BY SIMONE J. SMITH

Some people say Covid is long over, and we should all just give it up and move on, but unfortunately that’s just not true. So many Canadians are still suffering from the impacts of the Covid years. Many workplaces still enforce Covid vaccine requirements. Unvaccinated Canadians are denied life-saving organ transplants. Canadians suffering from vaccine injuries are still being ignored or silenced, and I noted last week in the cover story that rumours were swirling of a return to mandates and restrictions.

In all of this, it is good to know that there are still people fighting for the rights of Canadians and have never stopped fighting. Regardless of what people might feel about him Maxime Bernier has continued to prove himself as a fighter for the rights of Canadians. At the beginning of October, Maxime Bernier will be back in court to appeal a decision made during one of his constitutional challenges last year. COVID-19 travel restrictions that prevented unvaccinated Canadians from traveling by plane, train, or boat. When the constitutional challenge finally moved forward in September of last year, the judge called off the hearing before it even started! The judge sided with the government’s lawyers who argued that the case was moot, that it was not relevant since Trudeau had suspended the mandates.

Justice Jocelyne Gagné found that the use of judicial resources for a five-day hearing, when the travel mandate had already been lifted, outweighed the public interest in having the case heard on the merits. For Maxime, this determination was absurd. To let the government just sweep this discriminatory mandate under the rug without even hearing arguments! Is this the judicial system that we are working with here in Canada?

The Covid narrative is beginning to ramp up, and it seems like the mandates hadn’t even been revoked, they were only suspended, meaning they could be reimposed at any time, something that is starting to feel more and more likely.

Maxime continues to take a stand. He was not going to just accept this absurd and unjust decision. He immediately started working with his legal team on an appeal which is finally being heard in Ottawa on October 11^th, 2023.

For Canadian citizens who are as concerned as Maxime is, there is something you can do to help out:

Register to virtually attend the hearing. Whether you can actually watch it or not, it is crucial as many people sign up as possible. The more people who sign up demonstrates the public support for this appeal. One of the judge’s justifications for ruling our challenge moot was the lack of public interest. More than 6,000 have already signed up!

Click here to register. It takes less than a minute to sign up!

We are on the right side of history, and Maxime is so sure of this, that he is willing to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court if he has to!