Does the Charter protect against insignificant or trivial limitations to human rights?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Chu v. Canada (Attorney General), 2017 BCSC 630 (CanLII):
Justice Karakatsanis, citing Cunningham v. Canada, 1993 CanLII 139 (SCC), [1993] 2 S.C.R. 143 at 151, accepted that the Charter does not protect against insignificant or trivial limitations of rights. She then explained the nature of the liberty or security interests which had to be engaged:
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