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Canadian AG asks court to dismiss lawsuit against gov’t for imposing COVID jab travel mandate

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By Anthony Murdoch

Businessmen Karl Harrison and Shaun Rickard are seeking damages of $1 million each, claiming that their charter rights were violated.

The Canadian attorney general’s office is looking to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by two men who said their mobility “charter rights” were violated because of COVID jab travel mandates.

On July 2, as per an Epoch Times report, the attorney general filed a motion in Canada’s Federal Court to have the $2 million lawsuit filed by businessmen Karl Harrison and Shaun Rickard dismissed because it has argued some of the men’s charter rights were not violated.

Harrison and Rickard are both seeking damages of $1 million each in their second lawsuit against Canada’s minister of transportation and attorney general that was filed in November 2023.

According to Harrison and Rickard, their charter rights were violated “as a result of government decision-making and conduct that was rooted in negligence, bad faith and willfully blind to the absence of scientific evidence or disconfirming scientific evidence regarding the role, and, in particular, the unknown efficacy, of Covid-19 vaccination in reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission and infection within the transportation sector.”

In October 2021, Trudeau announced unprecedented COVID-19 jab mandates for all federal workers and those in the transportation sector and said the unjabbed would no longer be able to travel by air, boat, or train both domestically and internationally.

This policy resulted in thousands losing their jobs or being placed on leave for non-compliance. It also trapped “unvaccinated” Canadians in the country.

In November 2021, the Trudeau government initiated the COVID jab travel mandates that remained in place until June 2022.

Despite the attorney general’s motion to stop the lawsuit, lawyers for the Trudeau government have said that they would let Harrison and Rickard make changes to their statement of claim to show whether they are Canadian citizens so that Section 6 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms might apply.

Section 6 focuses on mobility rights and notes under point 6(1) that “every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada.”

Lawyers claim one’s COVID jab status not grounds for discrimination under Charter of Rights

The attorney general’s motion also claims that the COVID jab travel mandate did not violate any rights that are protected in Sections 7 and 15 of the Charter of Rights.

Section 7 of Canada’s Charter of Rights concerns the right of a person to “life, liberty and security of the person.” Section 15 offers protection against discrimination relating to race and sex.

According to the attorney general, Section 7 “does not confer protection for the ability to travel by federally regulated means of transportation.”

Government lawyers said that a person’s vaccination status is not enough to be seen as grounds for discrimination under Section 15.

“It is not contrary to section 15 of the Charter for individuals to be treated differently based on their choice whether or not to be vaccinated,” the lawyers wrote.

Harrison and Rickard’s second lawsuit come after they lost at the Federal Court of Appeal in their initial lawsuit against the COVID jab travel mandate, which was heard jointly with another similar one from People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier and former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford.

In this lawsuit, the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal dismissed as “moot” their legal challenge initiated against the federal government over COVID jab mandates that banned the vaccine free from travel.

Bernier and Peckford have since appealed to the Supreme Court.

COVID vaccine mandates, which came from provincial governments with the support of the federal government, split Canadian society. The mRNA shots have been linked to a multitude of negative and often severe side effects in children.

In 2021, Trudeau said Canadians “vehemently opposed to vaccination” do “not believe in science,” are “often misogynists, often racists,” and even questioned whether Canada should “tolerate these people.”

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WATCH: Big Pharma scientist admits COVID shot not ‘safe and effective’ to O’Keefe journalist

Published on July 17, 2025

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‘None of that stuff was safe and effective. We didn’t do the typical tests,’ Joshua Rys of Johnson & Johnson said to one of James O’Keefe’s undercover journalists.

A lead scientist for a global pharmaceutical firm disclosed on hidden camera that his firm’s COVID-19 vaccine underwent rushed testing, lacked research, and admitted that, in direct contradiction to the Biden administration’s constant refrain, the drug was not “safe and effective.”

“None of that stuff was safe and effective. We didn’t do the typical tests,” said Joshua Rys, a lead regulatory affairs scientist for Johnson & Johnson (J&J), not realizing that he was being filmed by one of James O’Keefe’s undercover journalists.

Rys explained that normally a new drug undergoes an extended period of testing, including human trials, but the COVID-19 vaccine circumvented those safety measures in order to rush the product to the public.

“This was just, ‘Let’s test it on some lab-rat models, analyze and see if it works,” said Rys, “and just throw it to the wind and see what happens.”

“I’m sure somebody is going to get sued for that stuff, eventually,” he predicted.

“Do you have any idea [of] the lack of research that was done on those products?” asked the J&J lead scientist.

“People wanted it. We gave it to them,” said Rys.

O’Keefe later approached Rys to ask what led him to tell a total stranger that his product was not safe and effective, but Rys evaded O’Keefe and his probing. 

O’Keefe explained that the work of his O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) undercover journalists is crucial because, he claimed, up to 80 percent of the revenue cable and other news organizations derive from ads comes from Big Pharma.

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Japan disposes $1.6 billion worth of COVID drugs nobody used

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The nation’s health ministry has already trashed 2 million doses of PaxlovidPACK and Lagevrio, and will dispose of 1.77 million doses of Xocova by the end of February 2026.

Japan is disposing of $1.6 billion worth of COVID-19 drugs that went unused and are now expired in a dramatic disconnect between government projections and reality.

The Japanese Broadcasting Corporation reported that the nation’s health ministry has already trashed 1.75 million patients’ worth of PaxlovidPACK and 780,000 patients’ worth of Lagevrio doses, and will dispose of 1.77 million patients’ worth of Xocova by the end of February 2026.

The government had been required by law to purchase enough oral COVID drugs for 5.6 million people, to be distributed free of charge through May 2023, at which point the virus was downgraded to the same threat level as normal seasonal influenza. But 2.5 million, a little under half the supply, remained unused by the time they hit their expiration dates.

The Star added that the value of the destroyed drugs is estimated to be roughly 240 billion yen, or 1.6 billion US dollars.

Across the world, governments took drastic action to counter the COVID pandemic, based in large part on exaggerated assumptions about the virus’s transmissibility and threat to non-elderly individuals without comorbidities. A large body of evidence has found that mass restrictions on personal and economic activity undertaken in 2020 and part of 2021 caused far more harm than good in terms of personal freedom and economics as well as public health, and that lives could have been saved through far less burdensome methods, such as the promotion of established therapeutic drugs, narrower protections focused on those most at risk (such as the elderly and infirm), and increasing vitamin D intake.

In Florida, the first report by a grand jury impaneled by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis determined that lockdowns did more harm than good, that masks were ineffective at stopping COVID transmission, that COVID was “statistically almost harmless” to children and most adults, and that it is “highly likely” that COVID hospitalization numbers were inflated.

Much like the controversial COVID vaccines, concerns were raised about the safety and effectiveness of COVID therapeutics such as Paxlovid and Lagevrio as well.

In May, former Japanese minister of internal affairs and communications Kazuhiro Haraguchi announced he had cancer, and said testing of the lesions linked it to spike proteins from the COVID-19 vaccine he had received two years before.

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