In this episode, I talk about why I chose to challenge the federal government's travel mandate, and why I believe it is a violation of Canadian citizens' mobility rights. I also talk about the challenges to other federal mandates, and the process of challenging them.
00:00:00.000Okay. Now, secondly, a lot of people are asking me, we understand that you've taken an action against the federal government. And yes, I have taken an action through to the against the federal government for one of their mandates.
00:00:16.920And it is their travel mandate. Their travel mandate dictates that any person who's not vaccinated for this alleged pandemic, this alleged COVID, cannot travel by plane or train across this nation.
00:00:38.700That violates one of the very important provisions of the Charter, Section 6, which is mobility rights, which says any Canadian, all Canadians from coast to coast to coast have the right to travel anywhere in Canada or leave Canada.
00:00:57.980Well, with this federal mandate, that's not true. I'm a Canadian. And I'm not permitted to travel on a plane or train to travel across this country. This has damaged and what shall I say violated the rights of a lot of Canadians, and hurt a lot of Canadians.
00:01:17.360I don't mind relating to you two things in the last two days. I get anywhere from 250 to 600 emails a day, right to this very day. Okay, while I'm on this broadcast, I'll get quite likely 100 to 150 emails, just in an hour, two hours. Okay, and I get a lot of phone calls.
00:01:41.340A lot of people are asking me questions. A lot of people want some hope and some assurance. Okay. So I took an action against the federal government's travel mandate, because I wanted to challenge these mandates. There's a lot of provincial mandates, there's a lot of federal mandates.
00:02:00.280This particular federal mandate of travel applies right across the nation, right, from Tofino to Bonavista, from Michalowit to Niagara Falls. Okay, it applies all across. So that was one reason why everybody would understand right away when I issued that challenge or issued that lawsuit, because everybody is affected.
00:02:25.460Everybody has friends, everybody has friends, family, business, in different parts of the nation. We're used to traveling. It's a huge country. It's the second largest country in the world geographically. Only Russia is larger. Okay, we're larger than the United States. We're larger than Brazil. We're larger than China or India, which are big countries. We're the second largest country in the world geographically. And therefore, travel is very important.
00:02:51.220Remember, remember, it was the railway that linked all of the country together. That was travel. That was a train. That's how important travel is to Canadians, right? It brought the country together. One of the reasons why all of British Columbia joined and all the prairie provinces joined was because they would be linked with the rest of the provinces that were forming to form Canada.
00:03:17.060So travel is critical. So travel is critical. The river systems of Canada, right? In the early explorer days, the St. Lawrence Seaway, you know, the Mackenzie River, right? The Fraser River for Fishing. The many other rivers around all of our provinces are very important for travel. So travel is very important.
00:03:36.800So that's one reason why I chose that particular charter right to challenge the federal government because everybody would be affected and would understand it quite easily.
00:03:51.320Secondly, secondly, secondly, by taking a federal mandate, I immediately go to the federal court of Canada.
00:04:00.060Okay? And there's only one more step. Whoever loses at the federal court, either if I lose and the other people who are suing under my suit with me, if we lose, we're quite likely to appeal it to the Supreme Court of Canada.
00:04:15.720There's only one more step. All the other provincial mandates demand that you go to the provincial courts first, then to the Supreme Court of Canada.
00:04:33.460And that's three steps. Anybody, and there are many challenges, and should be, all of these provincial mandates should be challenged as well, and many of them are, but they have to go to two steps in the province first.
00:04:48.080The trial division of the Supreme Court of that province, and then the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of that province, and then to the Supreme Court of Canada.
00:04:58.320So it's a three-step process, and it's much longer. Mine only has a two-step. Mine and the other people who are part of the suit that I'm taking only has two steps.
00:05:12.380So it's anticipated that, therefore, my lawsuit will get through for a final adjudication quicker than the others.
00:05:21.340And hopefully, by doing that, it will impact positively, if we win, the other mandates.
00:05:28.540I mean, if we win this mandate against the federal government, it will say a lot about the other mandates that have been put in place by the provinces.
00:05:37.020It was registered on January the 26th of this year.
00:05:43.880It is registered, and we have the file number and all of that.
00:05:48.120And my lawyers, who are the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, and many of you are familiar with them,
00:05:56.640they have a number of lawsuits underway, a lot of them dealing with the Constitution, a lot of them dealing with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:06:04.420They are perhaps the premier group in Canada today that are fighting for the rights and freedoms of Canadians.
00:06:12.940I don't know if there's any other group in Canada that have launched as many lawsuits against the governments, provincial and federal,
00:06:21.780as the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
00:06:24.960And so, therefore, and that's who I'm using as well.
00:06:28.780Plus, they have hired some outside legal lawyers as well to assist them because they're very, very busy.
00:06:36.160And if you go into their website, you'll see that they're always seeking more lawyers to join them because they have so many people coming to them every day and every week,
00:06:48.020asking to be represented by them in a legal suit against one of the governments, okay?
00:06:55.140So that's who's doing it, and they have, as I said, in my particular case and with the other people who were part of my lawsuit,
00:07:05.500the way it works is that I'm sort of the lead claimant, but there's five others named in my claim
00:07:14.000because what the Justice Centre is doing is getting examples of how this travel mandate has affected different people.
00:07:23.040It affects me because I can't go across Canada and speak like I am in British Columbia on the Constitution.
00:07:33.020It's too far away for me to drive from here to a speaking engagement even in Ontario will take a number of days, right?
00:07:40.740Whereas if I could fly, I could do several speeches while I'm traveling to Ontario in four or five days,
00:07:50.320where I could only do one if I have to drive all the way to Ontario.
00:07:54.260It makes it and impedes and restricts my right as a Canadian to travel across my country under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 6, okay?