Friday the Federal Court of Appeals upheld a January 2024 Federal Court decision that the federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act was “unreasonable.”

Justice Richard Mosley’s earlier ruling had declared the Act’s economic and emergency measures violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The decision reads, “We are of the opinion that every appeal before this Court should be dismissed. The Federal Court correctly determined that the declaration of a public order emergency was unreasonable and that parts of the Regulations and Economic Order infringed paragraph 2(b) and section 8 of the Charter”

As well the decision says that there were no errors made in regard to standing or admission of evidence that would require a review.

And the appeal court ruled that the Federal government did not have “reasonable grounds to believe that a threat to national security existed.”

A threat to national security is one of the requirements in order to invoke the act.