The Federal Court has dismissed the attorney general’s motion to strike a lawsuit filed by air travel employees who are suing Ottawa over its COVID-19-era vaccine mandate.
In a decision rendered on Feb. 7, Associate Judge Michael Crinson allowed the proposed lawsuit against the Canadian government and the minister of transport to go to class certification.
The plaintiffs include airline pilot Gregory Hill, airline station attendant Brent Warren, and former flight attendant Tanya Lewis. Hill and Warren were both suspended for not complying with the mandate, whereas Lewis was suspended and eventually terminated.
The plaintiffs argue the disciplinary measures imposed by their employers, who were conforming to Ottawa’s vaccine mandate for airlines, unjustifiably induced breaches of collective agreements. They also say the Charter right to freedom of association was breached….