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Group of active, retired police officers file constitutional challenge over Ontario’s COVID-19 rules

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COVID-19 pandemic orders, alleging that enforcing the rules requires officers to breach their oath to uphold the constitution.Notice of the constitutional challenge was filed late last month on behalf of 19 officers, including two Toronto officers currently facing an internal police investigation for allegedly breaching restrictions on social gatherings.The civil action targets Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Ontario’s attorney general, five police chiefs as well as federal officials.The claim, which has not been tested in court, seeks a number of declarations, including that religious services and protests are exempt from rules on gatherings, and that lockdowns and stay-at-home orders are a form of martial law, which the province does not have.

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