Civil Liberties Group Pledges to Fight ‘Tooth and Nail’ Against Feds’ Appeal of Emergencies Act Ruling

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is vowing to fight the federal government “tooth and nail” as Ottawa seeks to appeal a decision by the federal court that found its use of the Emergencies Act in 2022 was “unreasonable” and unjustified. The CCLA says it will defend the Jan. 23 ruling of federal judge Richard Mosley that the invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to 2022’s Freedom Convoy infringed on Canadians’ charter rights. “I want to be perfectly clear: we will fight them tooth and nail in the Federal Court of Appeal,” CCLA executive director Noa Mendelsohn Aviv said at a Jan. 24 press briefing in Toronto. “We will defend our historic victory for rights and freedom.”...