The legal road for charges filed under the Reopening Ontario Act against former independent MPP Randy Hillier for an anti-lockdown protest in Cornwall came to an end Tuesday.

Hillier had contested the constitutionality of the charges filed against him for his involvement in a protest in Cornwall on May 1, 2021, and was vindicated by the Ontario Court of Appeal on April 7 . It ruled in his favour in determining the restrictions on gatherings such as the protest in Cornwall violated the Charter right to peaceful assembly; the court said the Ontario Superior Court judge who’d heard Hillier’s challenge erred in going too broadly on consideration of whether the restrictions were an acceptable limitation.

Given the appeal court’s decision, the lingering matter of Hillier’s provincial-offen

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