WINNIPEG: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced that its lawyers have secured the release of federal political leader Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), who was arrested and put in jail earlier today by Manitoba police. After a bail hearing before Justice of the Peace Madam Becker, Bernier was released.
Mr. Bernier was in Manitoba to speak out against government lockdowns, which have been some of the most draconian in Canada. Mr. Bernier one of many individuals represented by the Justice Centre, along with citizens across Canada who are exercising their Charter freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, in the face of Covid public health orders. The Justice Centre has already filed a legal challenge in Manitoba maintaining that these health orders are an unjustified violation of Canadians’ fundamental Charter rights.
