How have courts interpreted s. 8 of the Canadian Constitution on privacy, search and seizure?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Mills, 2019 SCC 22 (CanLII):
Section 8 protects the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. In interpreting s. 8, courts seek to strike an acceptable balance, in a free and democratic society, between sometimes conflicting interests in the privacy necessary for personal dignity and autonomy and the need for a secure and safe society: see Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145, at pp. 159-60.
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