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Table of contents
I.
II.
III.
Overview............................................................................................................................. 4
National security ................................................................................................................. 8
Summary of the facts ........................................................................................................ 11
A. Facts in Mr. Brar’s Appeal .......................................................................................... 11
B. Facts in Mr. Dulai’s Appeal......................................................................................... 13
C. Procedural history covering both Appeals (Mr. Brar and Mr. Dulai)......................... 15
Review and analysis of the SATA .................................................................................... 16
A. General ......................................................................................................................... 16
B. Operation of the SATA ................................................................................................ 22
C. Appeal provisions of the SATA................................................................................... 27
Constitutional questions - Section 6 of the Charter: Mobility rights ............................... 32
A. Summary of the submissions of the Appellants and Respondent ................................ 32
(1) Submissions of Mr. Brar ....................................................................................... 32
(2) Submissions of Mr. Dulai...................................................................................... 32
(3) Submissions of the Respondent............................................................................. 34
The Oakes or the Doré approach ...................................................................................... 36
IV.
V.
VI.
VII. Analysis: Section 6 of the Charter.................................................................................... 37
A. Legislation.................................................................................................................... 37
(1) Section 6 of the Charter........................................................................................ 37
(2) Sections 8 and 9(1)(a) of the SATA...................................................................... 38
B. The intricacies of the current appeals........................................................................... 41
C. The meaning of mobility.............................................................................................. 41
(1) Interpreting the Charter ........................................................................................ 44
(a) Purposive analysis and jurisprudential guidance on mobility rights ........... 45
(b) Section 6 mobility rights are not subject to the notwithstanding clause...... 46
(c) The interpretative language ......................................................................... 47
(d) Analysis: Subsection 6(1) – International mobility rights........................... 50
(e) Analysis: Subsections 6(2), 6(3), and 6(4) – National mobility rights for the
purpose of taking up residence in any province and to pursue the gaining of
a livelihood in any province......................................................................... 51
(2) Analysis: Section 1 of the Charter........................................................................ 55
(a) General......................................................................................................... 55
(i) Is the infringement prescribed by law?................................................. 59
(ii) Is the objective pressing and substantial?............................................. 59
(iii) Is there proportionality between the legislative objective and the means
to achieve it?......................................................................................... 61
(b) Is the law or state action rationally connected to its purpose?..................... 61
(c) Does the law or state action minimally impair the infringed right? ............ 63
(3) Do the positive effects of the law or state action outweigh the negative effects of
the legislation or state action? ............................................................................... 65
D. Conclusion on section 6 of the Charter ........................................................................ 66
VIII. Constitutional questions – Section 7 of the Charter – Life, Liberty and Security of the
Person................................................................................................................................ 66
A. Summary of the submissions of the Appellants and Respondent ................................ 66