A $5,750 ticket issued to a 59-year-old decorated military veteran when he crossed the U.S.-Canadian border in 2021 with a COVID test that did not meet government-mandated requirements has been stayed.
The Democracy Fund (TDF), a Canadian charity focused on constitutional litigation, issued a news release on July 5 stating that they had successfully negotiated with the crown on the veteran’s behalf two weeks before the scheduled trial at the end of June. A stay of charges usually indicates that the government is not going to proceed with a trial and has decided to discontinue the prosecution of charges for the time being.
