Legal Group Sues Ontario Government Over Vaccine Passport Mandate

Legal Group Sues Ontario Government Over Vaccine Passport Mandate
Ontario Premier Doug Ford tours a vaccination centre at the Devonshire Mall in Windsor, Ont. on Oct. 18, 2021. The Canadian Press/ Geoff Robins
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A non-profit legal organization is filing a constitutional challenge in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice against the province’s COVID-19 vaccine passport mandate.

In a statement, Jorge Pineda, staff lawyer at Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, said Ontario’s vaccine mandates are “ethically wrong” and “illegal,” and the group plans to argue in court that the measures “take away the long-standing rights of citizens to make informed decisions about their own medical care.”