A long-awaited decision in a court case that sought to hold B.C. Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry and the province legally accountable for declaring a public health emergency which led to sweeping COVID-19 restrictions has ended in disappointment for the plaintiffs.
Justice David Crerar of the B.C. Supreme Court has refused to certify the proposed class-action lawsuit, which argued that Henry’s declaration of a public-health emergency was unnecessary and unconstitutional, thus making measures such as vaccine mandates unwarranted and unjustified under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
