An Alberta court has ruled that public health orders issued by the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) during the pandemic were invalid because they were enacted outside the powers of the Public Health Act, and were made by cabinet, not the top medical officer.
Constitutional lawyer James Kitchen says the July 31 ruling is a win for those challenging the government’s COVID restrictions, but only on a “technicality,” which he characterizes as a “thin victory” for them.
