A judge’s ruling that the federal Liberals were unjustified in using emergency law to quell a weeks-long protest in Ottawa has left the administrator of a downtown church feeling the court disregarded infringements of her rights.
In a decision released Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley said the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act in February 2022 was unreasonable and led to violation of the constitutional right of free expression.
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