Law360 Canada ( May 1, 2026, 12:19 PM EDT) -- Appeal by the appellant from a judgment of the Quebec Court of Appeal which set aside a judgment dismissing an application for judicial review. The Act to interrupt the electoral division delimitation process (ATI) has the effect of interrupting the process relating to the delimitation of Quebec’s electoral divisions made by the Commission de la représentation after every second general election. The respondents challenged the constitutional validity of the Act. The Superior Court held that the Act infringed the right to vote under s. 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) but that the infringement was justified under s. 1. The majority of the Court of Appeal found that the appellant had not discharged his burden of demonstrating that the infringement of s. 3 of the Charter was justified in a free and democratic society. It set aside the judgment in first instance and declared the ATI unconstitutional and of no force or effect. The determination made by the first instance judge concerning the infringement of s. 3 of the Charter was not appealed. The present appeal related solely to the justification for the infringement under s. 1 of the Charter. The appellant argued that the Court of Appeal unduly narrowed the pressing and substantial objective accepted by the first instance judge and departed from the factual findings derived from the evidence relating to what it described as a persistent phenomenon of devitalization of certain remote regions....