Premier John Horgan said in a statement Thursday that the province cannot prevent people from travelling to B.C. from elsewhere in Canada, noting that much of the travel into the province is work-related, which is protected under the Charter. Bakan said if most of the people crossing the B.C./Alberta are doing so for work, they would be protected by Section 6, and the government would have to make a good case that it posed a significant threat to British Columbians. “I guess the government didn’t feel they could make that case.” He said the legal questions facing B.C. around restricting travel into the province are the same as those faced by the Atlantic provinces – Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador – which created a pandemic bubble in the summer, requiring anyone from outside the four provinces to quarantine upon entry, while allowing travel between the Atlantic provinces. The Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut also r
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The province has the power to limit non-essential travel into B.C. and could make an argument to restrict other types of travel if it poses a risk to British Columbians, says a constitutional law . . .
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