Supreme Court Won’t Hear Travel Vaccine Mandate Appeal

Canada’s top court will not hear appeals from challengers of Ottawa’s COVID-era travel vaccine mandate. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals with costs on Aug. 29 in three separate cases. The court didn’t provide a reason for the decision, which is customary for judgments on leave applications. The rejected cases involved People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier, former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford and his co-applicants, and Quebec lawyer Nabil Ben Naoum. The three parties had filed an appeal with the top court after the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the decision of a lower court. Bernier, Peckford, and Ben Naoum, along with businessmen Karl Harrison and Shaun Rickard, had each filed applications for judicial review of the travel vaccine mandate when it was in place, seeking a ruling on its constitutionality....