Justice with John Carpay

Justice Centre lawyer James Manson gives us an update on the class action lawsuit brought by Zexi Li et al. in Ottawa against those involved in last year's Freedom Convoy, the protestors and the donors. The parties were in court recently arguing a Motion to Amend and a Motion to Strike, trying to resolve who, exactly, is being sued for what. It's not clear and that's a problem. Just...

John takes us through a book he recommends, Seven Absolute Rights: Recovering the Historical Foundations of Canada's Rule of Law , by Lakehead University's Ryan Alford. Though it was published in 2020 and written before government lockdowns, John explains why the book gives him hope for the future as we fight to re-establish our rights and freedoms lost in the last few years. Amazon.ca:...

Kevin is joined by Justice Centre lawyer Glenn Blackett who discusses his column about the Law Society of Alberta. Last year, the LSA forced its members, on penalty of losing their ability to practice law, to take a course on indigenous culture. Glenn describes the problems he sees with it and says this is a sign of institutional capture. He draws parallels between the LSA re-education and what is...

After Kevin introduces the topic of Jordan Peterson's battle with the College of Psychologists of Ontario, the conversation turns to John's arrest and detention over the holidays, which he wrote about in a Western Standard column. While incarcerated, John thought about two books he read recently, and he summarizes and describes them now. The topic of Jordan Peterson resurfaces at the end...

John comments on his recent Western Standard column about his Dutch ancestors and how they inspire him to continue the fight for freedom. Then he and Kevin go through the Justice Centre press release archive to pick out the best and the worst from a very eventful 2022. The passing year included the Freedom Convoy, the Public Order Emergency Commission and a sad loss in an organ transplant case, am...

We begin the show talking about the international news coverage of the dark side of Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying law. John then goes through a recent court ruling upholding Ontario's vaccine passport which claims Charter rights were not violated. John also highlights a false characterization of a Justice Centre client in a B.C. Court of Appeal ruling. Project Gutenberg: A Christm...

We discuss the revelation in Twitter Files Part 2 that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had been blacklisted on the social media platform. Dr. Bhattacharya was an expert witness in key Justice Centre Covid-19 cases in Canada. Elon Musk has stated that there is a lot more to come on the suppression of Covid-19 information during the pandemic. John also goes through his recent column about seven key takeaways f...

John and Kevin discuss the recent Munk Debate on the topic of mainstream media and distrust. Is the swing over to the side of not trusting the mainstream media indicative of a larger social trend? As an added bonus, at the end of the show they discuss a excerpt from the debate about Twitter and the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. That story received new life when one of the debaters,...

Justice Centre lawyer Hatim Kheir joins Kevin to give his wrap-up after the final week of testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission hearing in Ottawa. We get Hatim's impressions and observations from his front row seat at the proceedings. There was plenty of drama throughout, culminating in the much anticipated appearance of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. We discuss the late unredact...

John focuses on the testimony of Jody Thomas, the National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the PM, at the Public Order Emergency Commission hearing on November 17. He is critical of what Thomas called her "broad interpretation" of Canada's Emergencies Act, pointing out that it basically gives the federal government the right to declare an emergency at any time or for anything,...

Kevin speaks with Justice Centre lawyer Hatim Kheir, who is working with the team that has standing at the Public Order Emergency Commission hearing in Ottawa. The hearings are examining the government's justification for invoking the Emergencies Act to end the Freedom Convoy protest last February. Hatim has been posting daily updates on witness testimony, and here he gives his round-up for t...

We begin this week's recap of the Public Order Emergency Commission by listening to a section of a CBC recap about the same topic. One CBC professor pundit says that protestors were in their own "reality bubble." That sets the stage for us to discuss a week filled with interesting testimony from witnesses like Tamara Lich, with perspectives on the Freedom Convoy from outside the mai...

John and Kevin discuss the revelation from the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings in Ottawa this week. The federal government had not one, but two, peaceful solutions to end the protest in Ottawa, but these were ignored as they invoked the Emergencies Act . Later, John takes us through a list of laws governments could have used to end the demonstrations short of using emergencies powers. P...

Kevin updates John on hearings at the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa over the last week. Three key government/mainstream media narratives have bit the dust. They are: 1) Negotiations were impossible and/or failed. 2) The convoy was seeking to overthrown the government. 3) Ottawa police were taken by surprise when the convoy stayed past the first weekend. All untrue. Later, John commen...

Justice Centre Litigation Director Marty Moore takes us across the country, west to east, highlighting some of the Centre's courtroom activity in each province. At the very end, he drops a bombshell about a case, already well underway, where several applicants are challenging the invocation of the Emergencies Act. Some of the witnesses appearing before the Public Order Emergency Commission ha...

Lawyers Hatim Kheir and Eva Chipiuk join Kevin to give us an introduction to the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC), which starts on Thursday, October 13, in Ottawa. They explain the format, the rules, the implications, and the knowns and unknowns, of this historic process. This is the first POEC, following the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act in February of 2022, when the federa...

As the country enters into an unofficial period of post-Covid reflection, we ask ourselves what needs to be done to educate Canadians on the rights and freedoms that were so cavalierly dismissed over the last two years. Then, John goes over a couple of new Charter cases the Justice Centre is taking on, both of which involve politicians and municipal governments. Justice Centre, Sep 27, 2022: Justi...

Kevin is joined this week by Saskatchewan-based Justice Centre lawyer Andre Memauri. They discuss the sad news from last week about Carol Pearce, a Saskatoon woman who died in a Shoppers Drug Mart seven minutes after receiving a Covid booster. Andre then gives his perspective on a few of his cases; the Seneca College vaccine mandate challenge, the lawsuit of Dr. Francis Christian, and the case aga...

We go through a Toronto Star article about a federal government leak (or trial balloon) about possibly ending the Covid mandates and testing at the border. Then we discuss a victory for Canadian workers who were refused EI when they declined the Covid jab. We also take a few moments--with the Bernier et al trial in Saskatchewan as the backdrop--to remind everyone about the summer of 2020 when the...

We start with some thoughts on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Then we discuss the notion, circulating among some MSM opinion writers, that the Charter will become "less relevant" if the CAQ is re-elected in Quebec because Legault will continue to invoke the notwithstanding clause. Where have they been for the last two-and-a-half years while the Charter has been trampled by federal an...

We begin by asking if Canadians have any protection against governments outsourcing rights violations to private companies. In the second half, John gives us a preview of an upcoming Justice Centre report which highlights the recent data on excess deaths and vaccination side effects, exposing that the Government responses to Covid caused more harm than good. Toronto Sun, Sep 1, 2022: Airlines coac...

The Crown stayed 49 charges against seven Freedom Convoy protestors represented by the Justice Centre, but the reason they gave seems a bit strange; they couldn't produce the notes of the arresting officers. Also, we discuss the new Charter challenge against the ArriveCAN app, and the recent application to get Deena Hinshaw back in the witness chair in the Alberta lockdown case. Justice Centr...

Justice Centre lawyer Eva Chipiuk joins Kevin to describe some of the more interesting points in the case challenging the federal vaccine travel mandates. This is a consolidation of four different cases, and after an intense few months of questioning witnesses and experts, the lawyers have just filed 14,000 pages of testimony and evidence. Justice Centre, Aug 9, 2022: Travel Ban legal argument (PD...

Kevin opens with his impressions of the Justice Centre's George Jonas Freedom Award dinner in Calgary on Aug 11, and then John gives his views on the same event, from a different angle, as host and someone who attended all three award dinners this year, in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. Then we have a discussion of some of the main points made in Brian Peckford's keynote address at that...

After John gives us an update on the Aug 11 Justice Centre Award dinner in Calgary (99% chance Tamara Lich will attend), we key off a Rupa Subramanya article--about the government having no science to support their travel bans--to discuss some of the procedural issues in the Covid court challenges. This includes attempts by governments to have cases declared "moot." John then turns his a...