Peckford says COVID restrictions violate Charter of Rights he helped draft, but leading constitutional lawyer disagrees

Brian Peckford says he believes a lot of things about COVID-19, and not all of them are true.

Brian Peckford, pictured, said he thinks COVID-19 restrictions and mandatory vaccinations to do things like fly commercially infringe on his Charter freedoms, but Charter rights are about weighing individual rights with the rights of the community to stay safe, points out a leading constitutional lawyer. Photograph handout

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

March 7, 2022

Brian Peckford, who helped write the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is the last surviving first minister involved in drafting the defining document in 1982, says the federal government's COVID-19 measures and the now-revoked Emergencies Act violate the Charter, but a leading constitutional lawye...

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