Justice Centre Sues Ottawa for ‘Forcible Confinement of Travellers’

Justice Centre Sues Ottawa for ‘Forcible Confinement of Travellers’
Travellers arrive at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Feb. 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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A Canadian legal advocacy organization is suing the federal government over travel rules that will subject Canadians arriving in Canada to be “forcibly confined in hotels at a cost of $2,000 per traveller even though they return in possession of a negative PCR test.”

In a Feb. 17 press release, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) said it has received thousands of emails from outraged travelling Canadians ever since the Liberal government announced that “all citizens, regardless of their reason for travel, would be forced to have a COVID PCR test in order to board an airplane to return to Canada, then be forced to take another PCR test on arrival, and then be forcibly confined for up to three days while waiting for a negative test result, and also be forced to pay $2,000.”