Published Reports
Excess deaths contradict narrative of success
This Report draws attention to 2020-22 excess deaths in Canada and suggests that these have been caused by the indirect impacts of Canadian government Covid lockdown policies. T...
Canada’s Road to Beijing: The digital threat to the Charter rights and freedoms of Canadians
Canada is moving quickly toward a greater reliance on digital identification (digital ID) and digital currency technologies to form the basis of the relationship between state a...
Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression on campus : A submission to the Quebec government on bill 32, an Act respecting academic freedom in the university sector
Brief of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF.ca) to the Honourable Danielle McCann, Ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur By Lindsay Shepherd, MA, C...
Le projet de loi 32 : Protéger la liberté académique et la liberté d’expression sur les campus
Mémoire du Centre juridique pour les libertés constitutionnelles (CJLC.ca) à l’honorable Danielle McCann, ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur Par Lindsay Shepherd, ...
Government has no place in determining the truth for all
The truth of the Holocaust should not blind us to the danger of truth being legislated by government, by way of criminalizing the public expression of falsehoods. In the “free a...
Who had the worst bunk in Canada’s locked down barracks?
Which governments have been the worst violators of Charter rights and freedoms in the two years prior to its 40th Anniversary? On April 17, 2022, Canadians will mark the 40th...
Two weeks to flatten the curve, Two years to flatten our freedoms
It has now been two years since lockdown measures were imposed by governments across Canada in mid-March of 2020. Canadians have typically behaved as though their love of freedo...
Omicron: a variant of fearmongering
The message of fear proclaimed by government officials and the media was far overblown in light of the actual evidence concerning Omicron, the “variant of concern.” Harshe...
Covid versus the Spanish Flu of 1918: Does the virus merit the government’s response?
The Justice Centre has released a new report, Covid versus the Spanish Flu of 1918: Does the virus merit the government’s response? The report compares the historical data ...
Covid Vaccines Do not Stop Covid Spread: An analysis of current data
Any policy that segregates populations by means of mandatory vaccination policies requires at a minimum that those vaccines are effective in removing the risk of transmission. U...
Are lockdowns worth their cost?
How foolish it would be to lose a dollar on a horse race, then bet another dollar on the instant-replay. Yet, unless Canadians draw the right lessons from their lockdown experie...
Lockdowns and the Science of Covid, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
This Report, Lockdowns and the Science of Covid, has been prepared from submissions to the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on behalf of several Applica...
Covid in Canada: Nothing much to fear
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms released a new Charter analysis on April 28, 2021 outlining why Canadians need not fear Covid to the extent the federal and provin...
Bill C-15: Useless, dangerous, and divisive
The Justice Centre has submitted a report to the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs, entitled “Bill C-15: Useless, dangerous, and divisi...
Flying Blind: Governments’ hasty decisions to lock down Canadians while damaging public health and the economy
On December 3, 2020, the Justice Centre released a Charter analysis on the impact of lockdowns on the lives of Canadians. Titled “Flying Blind,” this Charter analysis demons...
Manitoba Government lockdowns violate Charter: legal analysis
The Justice Centre has released a comprehensive Charter analysis of the Manitoba Government’s lockdown measures, which violate the Charter freedoms of citizens to move, travel...
Bill C-7: The Danger of Undue Influence
The Justice Centre has submitted a report to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights entitled “Bill C-7: The Danger of Undue Influence” in response to the Federal...
Brief to Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding Bill C-6
Bill C-6 creates five Criminal Code offences related to “conversion therapy” but fails to prohibit or even define abusive and coercive practices that Canadians would associa...