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Legal challenges to the federal quarantine hotel policy continue to work their way through the courts, with another decision that was released on April 23. This decision was a minor procedural setback that will not have a bearing on the challenge to the policy. But the decision has attracted significant attention and is worth understanding.
Friday’s decision was about a request by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) and some individual travellers to temporarily suspend the quarantine hotel policy until the full legal challenge can be heard, later this year. The JCCF and these travellers were seeking what is called an injunction, which would suspend the quarantine hotel policy, because individuals are being harmed while they wait for the full challenge to be heard.