Subhead:The Democracy Fund overturns convictions against Amish families punished for refusing to use Trudeau’s mandatory COVID app.#
Toronto-based legal charity The Democracy Fund (TDF) has successfully overturned convictions against a group of Amish individuals fined for failing to use the federal government’s ArriveCan app.
More than $38,000 in fines have now been waived after months of legal advocacy.
The Amish, who crossed into Canada via Niagara Falls during the COVID-19 pandemic, were charged under the Quarantine Act for not completing the mandatory ArriveCan submission via the controversial and flawed cell phone application —something their faith and traditional lifestyle, which eschews modern technology, made effectively impossible.
