What is the scope of the "right to liberty interest" under s. 7 of the Criminal Code of Canada?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wynberg v. Ontario, 2006 CanLII 22919 (ON CA):
In this regard, the respondents note that the liberty interest protected by s. 7 is a broad concept intended to vindicate individual autonomy and personhood, and includes the right to make certain essential life decisions about oneself. As stated by LaForest J. in Godbout v. Longueuil (City), 1997 CanLII 335 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 844, [1997] S.C.J. No. 95, at para. 66: Rather, as I see it, the autonomy protected by the s. 7 right to liberty encompasses only those matters that can properly be characterized as fundamentally or inherently personal such that, by their very nature, they implicate basic choices going to the core of what it means to enjoy individual dignity and independence.
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