The Supreme Court of Canada will consider this week whether COVID-19 travel restrictions that prevented a woman from attending her mother’s funeral in 2020 violated her mobility rights under the Charter.
Kimberley Taylor, a Canadian originally from Newfoundland and Labrador currently living in Nova Scotia, filed an application on May 20, 2020, to contest the constitutionality of Newfoundland’s COVID-19 travel restrictions after she was denied entry to the province to attend the funeral of her mother, who had died suddenly at her home in St. John’s.
Taylor is listed as the applicant, along with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA). The case names the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and Chief Medical Officer of Health Janice Fitzgerald as respondents….