Federal Court Rejects Appeal from Travel Vaccine Mandate Challengers

Justice George Locke upheld a previous Federal Court ruling that the lawsuit against the government can be dismissed due to ’mootness.’

A traveler walks past a "Mandatory COVID-19 Testing" sign at Pearson International Airport during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic of Toronto, Ontario, on Dec. 18, 2021. Reuters/Carlo Allegri

The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling of a lower court which declared that lawsuits against the Liberal government for its travel vaccine mandate can be dismissed due to “mootness.”

Justice George Locke wrote in his Nov. 9 decision that there was no “palpable and overriding error” in the October 2022 decision made by Federal Court Justice Jocelyne Gagné.