Christine Van Geyn
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Litigation Director at The Canadian Constitution Foundation @CDNConstFound - Host of @CanadaJusticeTV - YouTube:
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and I are ecstatic that our book, Pandemic Panic, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Donner Prize! Thank you so much to the Donner Prize for this honour, and congratulations to the other shortlisted authors!
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2023 Donner Prize! The winner will be announced Wednesday, May 8. Read all about this year's shortlisted books here:
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URGENT BREAKING NEWS: CCF announces legal challenge to Trudeau’s invocation of federal Emergencies Act
#cdnpoli
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Turns out I there is indoor dining in Ontario after all, you just need to do it in the airport. Science is truly incredible.
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Wrapped up the day at the BC court challenging the government's discriminatory vaccine passport policy. Thanks to our talented lawyer Geoffrey Trotter for his hard work on this case. I'm feeling really optimistic!
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We are proceeding with our case against the federal government for their illegal and unconstitutional use of the Emergencies Act. Read what the revocation means for our case, and why we are still proceeding, in today's
@nationalpost
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EMERGENCIES ACT INVOCATION DECLARED UNREASONABLE BY FEDERAL COURT!!!!
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Please stop. You don't need to talk to me or any woman like this.
Trudeau says Canadians need to "counter the 'she-cession' and turn it into a 'she-covery'."
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My friends in the US just got vaccine appointments. They're in their 30s. But their 100 year old Auschwitz-surviving grandmother was turned away at North York general in Toronto.
The vaccine rollout in this country has been an embarrassment.
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The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) has announced it is launching a legal challenge to the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. The challenge will be by way of urgent application for judicial review at the Federal Court.
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Yet another temporary measure that keeps getting less temporary. We are challenging this policy in BC.
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I just got to the BC Court of Appeal. Today the court is hearing the appeal in our legal challenge of the BC vaccine passports and failure to create workable medical exemptions. I'll be live tweeting the proceedings beginning at 10 am PST.
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Will comorbidities also be taxed? 🤔
Quebec premier says adults without a legitimate vaccination exemption will have to pay an extra tax. François Legault says unvaccinated people are financially burdening the health care system, and that they'll have to make a 'health care contribution.'
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For anyone saying these measure are temporary...
On vaccine passports, Trudeau says provincial passports will be an "interim measure, that will perhaps last a year or so, before (the feds) bring in a formalized passport version"
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We at the CCF are now poring over the decision in the judicial review of the invocation of the Emergencies Act. The high level: invocation was unreasonable and ultra vires, the regulations enacted under it unconstitutional.
We are reading the reasons now, they are available…
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BRING IT ON.
Freeland: Feds will appeal court ruling
Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will appeal a court's ruling that the use of the Emergencies Act was 'unreasonable.'
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It's very disturbing that the democratically elected leadership of this province has made their position on vaccine passports clear. But a group of unelected bureaucrats are attempting to overrule that decision. The case for vaccine passports is not made out. This is a power grab
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NEWS RELEASE: The
@CDNConstFound
is in the Federal Court today seeking the disclosure of information which goes to the heart of the federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act
Read more here:
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In this clip from
@cbcnews
the mayor of Niagara falls says:
- only 200k people showed up to watch the eclipse (not ~1M)
- there was no emergency
- the region's emergency declaration kept people away and led to hotel cancellations...
- and that he can't disagree with the…
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My latest oped: Emergencies Act was clearly unjustified — Liberals face steep path to appeal. Federal Court ruling a massive political humiliation for the government
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At this point all I want are tax credits for independent schools. I want to get my kids away from the constant strikes (and strike threats) in the disastrous government school system.
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NEWS RELEASE: Federal Court finds Emergencies Act invocation violated rights, was unreasonable and unconstitutional.
More:
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Kids will have lost nearly two full years of school. What will the long term consequences be? It's heartbreaking and many parents feel helpless.
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Yesterday's decision from Federal Court was so gratifying. A real victory for fundamental freedoms, especially the right to protest. We are inundated with media responding to this historic decision, and absolutely thrilled with the result.
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Just arrived at Osgoode Hall for the hearing in Dr Jordan Peterson v College of Psychologists of Ontario. Follow this account for live tweets
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Really disappointed to see the inaccuracies in this CBC story for kids.
@CBCAlerts
@CBCNews
@cbckids
@CBCKidsNews
I'll point out some of the corrections you need to make in this thread
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"The high threshold for declaring a public order emergency in the Emergencies Act has not been met. The Act has been invoked to address a failure to use existing legal tools under the Criminal Code, which were used effectively on the Ambassador Bridge." -
@cvangeyn
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In Ontario if you test positive for covid you have a 5 day isolation period. But if you test positive from a random test at an airport, you have a 10 day isolation period.
Why?
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I've had a number of people contact me today, unsure about what they are allowed to leave their house for and afraid that police could pull them over.
The government has created a culture of fear with the stay at home order. This is terrible for police and for the public.
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Remember when Bonnie Henry said BC would never have vaccine passports because they increase inequities? And now people who live with disabilities that prevent them from getting vaccinated can't eat inside a restaurant. What a world.
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Today was a massive victory for civil liberties in Canada and I am thrilled with the role we at the
@CDNConstFound
played in this case.
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Some interesting and important litigation being brought by my friend
@Lawsome_
Jewish union members file rights claim against CUPE alleging discrimination and antisemitism via
@nationalpost
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“Emergency legislation should not be normalized. The threshold for using the Emergencies Act is extremely high and has not been met. The decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, which has never been used or interpreted by the courts, is unprecedented." -
@cvangeyn
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Members of the public who are interested in supporting the case can make a tax deductible charitable donation at
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@supriyadwivedi
@WeAreCanProud
Ew. What a disgusting way to talk. I get that you are on your personal time, but this is gross and embarrassing. You really should take that break.
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I need your help. Trudeau has announced they are appealing the decision in our Federal Court case that found the invocation of the Emergencies Act unconstitutional & unreasonable. Please sign out petition asking the government NOT to appeal!
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BREAKING: we've achieved a huge victory! The Ontario Superior Court has struck down the federal election censorship law, which we challenged as an unconstitutional infringement of freedom of expression.
Read our release:
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The dam is breaking
NEWS: Quebec Liberal MP Robillard also breaks ranks, questions Trudeau government’s handling of pandemic
@abbas_rana1
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Public service announcement: you can support voluntary vaccination and oppose government mandating vaccination.
You can get vaccinated but think it's a problem if the government wants to ask you to prove it to enter a restaurant or get on a train.
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BREAKING: The
@CDNConstFound
has filed materials in court challenging the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Read more here:
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VICTORY! Ontario city backs down and rescinds order against homeowner flying anti-Trudeau flag after
@CDNConstFound
fights back
#cdnpoli
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BREAKING: the
@CDNConstFound
announces legal action on BC vaccine passports. Read more here:
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The Act is drafted carefully and narrowly, to ensure the federal government cannot abuse emergency powers ever again.
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Receiving some feedback that our website is getting overwhelmed with traffic of people viewing our announcement of the challenge to the federal invocation of the Emergencies Act. Here is a screengrab.
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MY LATEST: Why the freedom of expression fight between
@jordanbpeterson
and the college of psychologists should matter to everyone
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There are currently 250+ people watching our injunction hearing against the federal quarantine hotel policy 😳
Lots of interest in this case!
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I've been stuck on a column about what's going on with recent lockdown measures in Manitoba. In part because the government measures are becoming so bizarre I can't believe these things are actually happening.
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We've released an Explainer of the federal court Emergencies Act decision, highlighting the key passages that liberty-loving Canadians need to know. Get your copy here:
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BIG NEWS! The Federal Court is now allowing people to observe our legal challenge to the Emergencies Act online, April 3-5. You can stream the proceedings live.
You must register here:
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The Emergencies Act was enacted to replace the discredited War Measures Act, which was used during the Second World War to intern Japanese Canadians and Italian Canadians, and during the FLQ Crisis in Quebec.
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🚨 There are HUGE problems with Trudeau's newly proposed "Online Harms" bill 🚨
We created a platform so concerned Canadians can write their MP about their concerns. PLEASE - we need your help to STOP & FIX this flawed censorship law
Write to your MP here:…
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Opposed to vaccine passports? Join us in our fight against them:
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Hearing in the
@CDNConstFound
challenge to BC's vaccine passport system about to begin. Courtroom 30 at the BC Supreme Court, 800 Smithe St, Vancouver.
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Canadian lawyers urge rejection of Emergencies Act
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The
@CDNConstFound
's work on the legal challenge to the Trudeau government's use of the Emergencies Act and the release of documents related to our case was featured on the front page of the Globe and Mail today.
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These records were released as a part of our legal challenge to the federal government's Emergencies Act. On August 8 we had a hearing asking the Federal Court to order the disclosure of unredacted cabinet documents to counsel only, in a closed court room.
Morning Update: Trudeau government invoked Emergencies Act despite ‘potential for a breakthrough’ with convoy protesters, documents show
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The idea of vaccine passports seems less about stopping the spread of the virus, and more about imposing the will of the majority on the remaining portion of the population, who for whatever their reasons, remain unvaccinated /1
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My first time being published in the
@winnipegsun
! Give me a retweet if you think
@BrianPallister
's new lockdown makes no sense and has gone too far
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#Covid19MB
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"The main takeaway of this decision is that the federal government illegally used one of the most powerful tools in our legislative toolbox," said Christine van Geyn, litigation director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
"They illegally used it against what the court…
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The Act defines a national emergency as “an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that (a) seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or.....
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Do you think the Trudeau government's decision to end COVID travel restrictions is a political one?
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High profile back downs matter. Public pressure matters. Keep it up.
Quebec has backtracked on its plans to impose a tax on people unvaccinated against COVID-19 after mounting opposition to the controversial measure and announced additional public health measures will be lifted later this month.
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MEGA THREAD - EMERGENCIES ACT LEGAL CHALLENGE DAY 2.
We are about to start Day 2 of the hearings challenging the invocation of the Emergencies Act. At federal court in Ottawa, we start arguments at 930 am. Check this thread for live updates.
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NEWS RELEASE: the
@CDNConstFound
legal challenge to the Emergencies Act being heard in Ottawa court April 3-5
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(b) seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada”. It also requires that the federal government demonstrate that this situation cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.
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What exactly would the "next level" look like? Following federal health minister's comments 2 days ago about mandatory vaccination, this is very disturbing.
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A school trustee in Hamilton posted this on October 7, the day of the massacre. When the blood was not yet dry on the bodies of Jewish babies. Before an Israeli response.
If you were a Jewish family with a child in her school, how would you feel?
I am disgusted by the…
75 years of violent occupation and apartheid and the expectation is that Palestinians will be passive observers in their genocide?
A liberated Palestine in our lifetime is possible, in Shaa Allah 🇵🇸
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185 MPs voted to support the use of the Emergencies Act despite the fact that civil liberties groups
@CDNConstFound
and
@cancivlib
have warned that the criteria of the act is not met and they are suing the government over its use.
185 MPs should be ashamed of themselves
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Do you think he'll stay in a quarantine hotel?
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Vaccine passports have come into effect in BC today. The order contains no medical exemptions (although there is a route for reconsideration).
We will have more to say in the coming days. We are working diligently on this with counsel and with some courageous individuals
#bcpoli
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@acoyne
Did you actually watch the episode? Or read the tribunal decision we are discussing? If so, what is your disagreement with how it's been described here? But expect not. I think you should read the decision before you throw nails just to make yourself feel superior.
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This is important.
Federal advisory panel recommends end to hotel quarantine in Canada via
@CTVNews
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Just 10 more Thanksgivings to flatten the curve!
Thanksgiving is essentially cancelled in New Brunswick. Premier Higgs restricted all household gatherings from this Friday night to midnight Mon/Tues. No visitors allowed into any homes. Restrictions in place in response to rising Covid numbers.
@CTVNews
@CTVAtlantic
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I'm troubled by the new Manitoba public health policies. These policies restrict access to public spaces to only those who are fully vaccinated. While I support voluntary vaccination, this is an individual choice that Canadians have a right to make for themselves /1
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MEGA THREAD ON EMERGENCIES ACT HEARING: The hearing of the challenge to the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act is about to begin. Check this thread for live updates.
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New Op-Ed: Trudeau government's rash use of Emergencies Act deserves consequences
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Tomorrow is the hearing in the legal dispute between
@jordanbpeterson
and the College of Psychologists of Ontario. The
@CDNConstFound
is an intervenor. Unfortunately there will be no video stream for the public. But follow this account for live tweets. I will be there.
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