FIRST READING: The wacky Charter rights Canadian courts keep finding (like a right to bike lanes)

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_This month, an Ontario court ruled that Canadians have a charter right to bike lanes. Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas struck down a Province of Ontario plan to remove three Toronto bike lanes, stating that it violated the “principles of fundamental justice.”_

_This seems to be happening a lot — a Canadian judge finding a heretofore undiscovered right in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Most of these decisions are happening thanks to Section 7 of the Charter, which enshrines the right to “life, liberty and security of the person.”_

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