Police Officers Take Ontario Government to Court Over COVID-19 Measures

An Ontario Provincial Police logo is shown during a press conference in Barrie, Ont., Canada, on April 3, 2019. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

Fifteen active and four retired police officers are taking the Ontario government to court over the province’s COVID-19 measures that “compels” officers to enforce rules that violate Charter rights and their oath to uphold the Constitution. 

The officers state, in the notice of application (pdf) filed on April 20, that Ontario’s COVID-19 measures are “unconstitutional and of no force and effect” and force officers to violate the Charter rights and freedom and breach the oath they took to protect the people according to law.