Founded in 2010 as a voice for freedom in Canada’s courtrooms, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF’s) mission is to defend the constitutional freedoms of Canadians through litigation and education.
BARRIE, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased with the Crown prosecutor agreeing to stay charges against pastor Michael Thiessen of Grace Baptist Church. Mr. Thiessen had been charged in 2021 for allegedly violating the Reopening Ontario Act. A trial for Mr. Thiessen had been scheduled for September 14, 2024, but now this trial will not be proceeding.
TORONTO, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces today that former MPP Randy Hillier’s constitutional challenge against Ontario's Stay-At-Home Order, and the subsequent complete ban on protests, from April to June of 2021 will be heard on Thursday July 27 and Friday July 28, 2023 at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. The hearing can be watched live.
STRATFORD, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased to announce that charges against Mr. Derek Sloan and Mr. Randy Hillier were dropped on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Both men attended a rally against Covid-19 lockdown measures in April 2021.
RED DEER, ALBERTA: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the trial of Ty Northcott and Northcott Rodeo Inc. will continue today, Wednesday June 21, 2023, at 9:30 AM in Courtroom #102, in the Red Deer Provincial Courthouse, 4909 48 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta.
TORONTO, ONTARIO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the appeal of a hate promotion case arising from criminal charges against Bill Whatcott will be heard, today, June 21, 2023, at 10 AM EST by the Court of Appeal of Ontario.
CHATHAM, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased to announce that charges against Pastor Henry Hildebrandt, for allegedly attending a protest in Chatham, have been withdrawn at the request of the Crown Prosecutor.
Pastor Hildebrandt allegedly attended an anti-lockdown protest on April 26, 2021. At the time, Ontario had instituted its most draconian pandemic management scheme by banning virtually any form of outdoor gathering. About 200 people attended the April 26 protest. Pastor Hildebrandt was alleged to have attended and to have spoken to the Crowd.
TORONTO, ONTARIO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that Constable Michael Brisco of the Windsor Police Service will be appealing his charge of Discreditable Conduct to the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.
ALBERTA: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms provides an update to its April 18, 2023 News Release concerning Sheila Annette Lewis’s recent demand letter to the Alberta Transplant Program.
On April 14, 2023, Ms. Lewis’ legal counsel sent a demand letter on her behalf to her transplant doctors and AHS providing them with scientific proof that she has robust natural immunity to Covid-19. A highly sensitive blood test revealed the presence of antibodies which showed that she had Covid-19 in September 2021, and again more recently. She requested that as a result of her natural immunity to Covid-19, the transplant team and AHS exempt her from the Covid-19 vaccine policy, and reinstate her to the high priority (Status 2) organ transplant list so that she can have a chance to receive life-saving surgery.
OTTAWA: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is announcing that two Ontario churches have filed an application in the Supreme Court of Canada seeking leave to appeal from the decision upholding the restrictions imposed on religious gatherings by the Ontario government during the COVID pandemic.
CALGARY, ALBERTA: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased to announce that on Thursday, April 13, 2023, lawyers for the Honourable Brian Peckford, the Honourable Maxime Bernier, and others, filed their written arguments in support of their appeal of the October 20, 2022 decision of the Federal Court that found their case was “moot”.
OSHAWA, ONTARIO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (“JCCF”) is announcing that School Board Trustee Linda Stone has filed an application for judicial review against the Durham District School Board (the “Board”) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for censoring her speech and interfering with her ability to fulfil her role as an elected official.
Trustee Stone was recently censured by the Board and excluded from a Board meeting for exercising her freedom of expression and for voicing her constituents’ concerns about the Board’s policies around race, sexuality, and gender. She has also been barred from attending any Board committee meetings for the rest of this year.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the Federal Court hearing of the Jost et al. v. Canada constitutional challenge to the invocation of the Emergencies Act starts today in Ottawa and is scheduled to conclude on April 5. Canadians can view this public hearing here.
Toronto, Ontario: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is sharing that Robin Francis, who was terminated from his employment and deemed ineligible for Employment Insurance (EI) benefits for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine, has made a special judicial review application to the Federal Court of Appeal. The Federal Court of Appeal is being asked to determine that the denial of EI benefits to Dr. Francis was unjustified and violated his Charter rights.
Ottawa, Ontario: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is defending Nova Scotia trucker, Guy Meister, whose Charter Application seeking a stay of his criminal charges of mischief and resisting or wilfully obstructing police, which will be heard today at 10 a.m. in Courtroom #2 at the Ontario Court of Justice, 161 Elgin Street, Ottawa. Mr. Meister was arrested last year while peacefully protesting at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
In court today, Mr. Meister’s counsel, Brian Doody, will be arguing that Mr. Meister’s was arbitrarily detained and arrested by the police in violation of his section 9 Charter rights and that therefore the criminal charge against him should be stayed.
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is
pleased to announce that charges against Pastor Aaron Rock were
withdrawn at the request of the prosecuting Crown Attorney in Windsor on
February 6, 2023. Pastor Rock was facing another charge in Stratford,
Ontario which was withdrawn at the request of the Crown on February 16,
2023. In both jurisdictions Pastor Rock was charged under the Re-opening Ontario Act (ROA). 
Ottawa, Ontario: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is disappointed by the Report of the Public Order Emergency Commission (“POEC”), which was tabled before Parliament today. The seven weeks of hearings showed the protests in Ottawa and across the country to be disruptive, yet overwhelmingly peaceful. The hearings provided evidence to show that they did not pose a “threat to the security of Canada” (as that term is defined in s. 2 of the CSIS Act). Despite this, Commissioner Paul Rouleau’s Report concluded that the Government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was justified.
In finding that there were reasonable grounds for Cabinet to believe that a national emergency existed when the Act was invoked, the Commissioner’s Report states: “I do not come to this conclusion easily, as I do not consider the factual basis for it to be overwhelming and I acknowledge that there is significant strength to the arguments against reaching it.” In his public statement today, he added “Reasonable and informed people could reach a different conclusion than the one I have arrived at.”
Calgary: Today, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms issued the following statement concerning the charge laid against John Carpay by the Winnipeg Police:
During the height of Covid restrictions and lockdowns, it was reported that key members of Manitoba’s leadership were breaching public health regulations. As was already reported at the time, John Carpay made the unilateral decision to hire an investigator to ascertain the credibility of these claims in June 2021.
CALGARY: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms filed a memorandum with the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications denouncing Bill C-11, which would give the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) the power to control virtually all streaming platforms and audio-visual content uploaded on thereon.
The memorandum contains 5 amendments proposed by Justice Centre lawyers, that, if implemented, will protect Canadians from the worst aspects of C-11.
