Juno News - October 05, 2022The fight against mandates isn't over yet
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Summary
Sean Rickert and Carl Harrison return to the podcast to discuss the federal government's decision to suspend the last remaining pandemic travel restrictions, and whether or not the case against the government should be dismissed as moot, or if it should stay in court.
Transcript
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At long last, the federal government announced that they were going to allow their last remaining
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pandemic restrictions to expire on October 1st. Essentially, ARRIVE CAN or ARRIVE CAN'T,
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as it's popularly known, will become optional. In addition to this, testing and quarantine
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requirements for those entering Canada, as well as mask mandates on planes and trains,
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will no longer be in place. So it seems like finally we're getting closer to joining the rest
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of the world in hopefully putting the pandemic behind us. Canada, as you know, something that I've
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been pointing out for months now, has been an extreme outlier in terms of how long stringent
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restrictions have been maintained in the face of a retreating pandemic. Today, I'm pleased to welcome
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back Sean Rickert and Carl Harrison. You might recall Sean and Carl are two British-born entrepreneurs
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Canadians who brought a civil lawsuit against the federal government's vaccine mandate for travel.
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You might also recall that last month, based on the cross-examination of key government witnesses
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by their attorney, Sam Presfalos, I broke the story for Barry Wise's Common Sense platform
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that the government, the Trudeau government's vaccine mandate for travel had no scientific rationale.
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Now, after the federal government suspended the vaccine mandates, both for travel and for the
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civil service on June 16th, the attorney general filed a mootness motion. Basically, the government's
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position is that now that these mandates have been suspended, the lawsuit challenging them
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is no longer relevant. It is now moot and therefore should be dismissed.
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On September 21st, the federal court of Canada under Judge Jocelyn Gagné began hearing submissions for
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press for laws and lawyers representing the attorney general, which I attended via Zoom. We're still
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awaiting a decision from the judge on whether she thinks the case is moot or not. If it's not,