Constitutional Rights Group Launches Legal Challenge Over Niagara State of Emergency Declaration for Eclipse

Published on April 8, 2024

A constitutional rights group is seeking to challenge the Niagara Region in court after the city declared a state of emergency ahead of the much-anticipated total solar eclipse April 8. The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) has filed a notice of application for a judicial review of the region’s state of emergency, calling the move “unlawful.” “The CCF is deeply concerned about the proliferation of declarations of emergency in situations where no genuine emergencies exist,” the group said in an April 5 statement. “The definition of ‘emergency’ in law must remain narrow because states of emergency are often used to limit property rights and infringe on civil liberties such as freedom of assembly and freedom of association.”...

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