Juno News - October 05, 2022


The fight against mandates isn't over yet

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Carl Harrison Sam Presfalos Jocelyn Gagné Sean Rickard Common Sense Barry Weiss Trudeau
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2 minutes

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138.19

Word count

316

Sentence count

14


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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.

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00:00:00.240 At long last, the federal government announced that they were going to allow their last remaining
00:00:04.800 pandemic restrictions to expire on October 1st. Essentially, ARRIVE CAN or ARRIVE CAN'T,
00:00:12.640 as it's popularly known, will become optional. In addition to this, testing and quarantine
00:00:18.880 requirements for those entering Canada, as well as mask mandates on planes and trains,
00:00:24.880 will no longer be in place. So it seems like finally we're getting closer to joining the rest
00:00:30.800 of the world in hopefully putting the pandemic behind us. Canada, as you know, something that I've
00:00:36.320 been pointing out for months now, has been an extreme outlier in terms of how long stringent
00:00:42.160 restrictions have been maintained in the face of a retreating pandemic. Today, I'm pleased to welcome
00:00:47.680 back Sean Rickert and Carl Harrison. You might recall Sean and Carl are two British-born entrepreneurs
00:00:55.280 Canadians who brought a civil lawsuit against the federal government's vaccine mandate for travel.
00:01:03.120 You might also recall that last month, based on the cross-examination of key government witnesses
00:01:09.840 by their attorney, Sam Presfalos, I broke the story for Barry Wise's Common Sense platform
00:01:15.840 that the government, the Trudeau government's vaccine mandate for travel had no scientific rationale.
00:01:21.440 Now, after the federal government suspended the vaccine mandates, both for travel and for the
00:01:28.080 civil service on June 16th, the attorney general filed a mootness motion. Basically, the government's
00:01:34.880 position is that now that these mandates have been suspended, the lawsuit challenging them
00:01:41.520 is no longer relevant. It is now moot and therefore should be dismissed.
00:01:46.080 On September 21st, the federal court of Canada under Judge Jocelyn Gagné began hearing submissions for
00:01:52.400 press for laws and lawyers representing the attorney general, which I attended via Zoom. We're still
00:01:59.200 awaiting a decision from the judge on whether she thinks the case is moot or not. If it's not,
00:02:04.000 then the case gets its day in court.