Supreme Court to consider if COVID travel bans violated charter mobility rights after woman missed mother’s funeral

Kimberley Taylor, who was denied entry into Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic to attend her mother’s funeral, contends that the province’s travel ban breached her mobility guarantee protected by the Charter of Rights.

“Denying the right of entry into a province strikes at the heart of the Canadian identity and Canada’s existence as a unified nation,” Taylor’s lawyer, John Drover, wrote in a legal brief to the Supreme Court.

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