The Defendant Guy Meister gives notice that he will contest the constitutional applicability or operability of sub-paragraph 17(2)(c), found in Part II of the Emergencies Act, to that area of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive where the Defendant was arrested during the Public Order Emergency declared pursuant to Part II of the Act, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Defendant. [...] The Defendant Guy Meister gives notice that he will contest the constitutional applicability or operability of the comprehensive provincial regulatory scheme set out in the Critical Infrastructure and Highways Order of February 12, 2022, which governed the duties of police officers as well as the operators of commercial motor vehicles in Ontario at the time of the Defendant’s detention and arrest,. [...] The Defendant Guy Meister gives notice that he will contest the constitutional applicability of paragraph 1(a) of the Canadian Bill of Rights and sections 8 and 9 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to his arrest and detention by police officers in Ottawa on February 18, 2022, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Defendant will invoke each individual’s right to th. [...] egress, and violated the right to the “enjoyment of property, and the right not to be deprived thereof except by due process of law” at paragraph 1(a) of the Canadian Bill of Rights, and the right to “security of the person” pursuant to section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. [...] The Application argues that the matters set out in it should be heard forthwith by a judge of the Court prior to trial, because the defendant has the right to know the case he has to meet 4 with “sufficient detail of the circumstances” to prepare a full defense “with respect to the act or omission to be proved against him and to identify the transaction referred to” (per subsection 581(3) of the C.
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