Agriculture gag laws: Feds move forward as lawsuit filed in Ontario

By Samantha Skinner (March 17, 2021, 8:43 AM EDT) -- On March 9, 2021, Animal Justice, along with journalist Jessica Scott-Reid and activist/photographer Louise Jorgensen, filed a Charter challenge against Ontario’s problematic Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act and Regulations. Together, they claim that sections of the Act and Regulations suppress the voices of animal rights activists in a way that unconstitutionally violates the s. 2(b) Charter freedom of expression....