Subhead:Randy Hillier has ultimately secured a victory for individual liberty as the courts uphold his Charter Right to peaceful assembly.#
Former independent Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston MPP Randy Hillier has once again triumphed over the heavy hand of the COVID-19 lockdown regime.
On Tuesday, the Crown quietly withdrew charges against Hillier tied to a May 1, 2021, anti-lockdown protest in Cornwall, as reported by the Cornwall Standard Freeholder.
The court’s decision determined that the restrictions on public gatherings violated Hillier’s Charter Right to peaceful assembly. The Ontario Superior Court judge who initially heard Hillier’s case got it wrong, the appeal court said in April, by casting too wide a net when weighing whether these restrictions were a justifiable limit on our freedoms.
