The Supreme Court of Canada will consider this week whether COVID-19 travel restrictions that prevented a woman from attending her mother’s funeral in 2020 violated her mobility rights under the Charter.
Kimberley Taylor, a Canadian originally from Newfoundland and Labrador currently living in Nova Scotia, filed an application on May 20, 2020, to contest the constitutionality of Newfoundland’s COVID-19 travel restrictions after she was denied entry to the province to attend the funeral of her mother, who had died suddenly at her home in St. John’s.
