What is the scope of section 7 of the Charter and what does section 7 mean?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Mario Côté Inc. v. Canada (Canadian Food Inspection Agency), 2015 CART 25 (CanLII):
Rights protected by section 7 of the Charter encompass those matters that are fundamentally or inherently personal, such that by their very nature they implicate personal choices going to the core of what it means to enjoy individual dignity and independence (see Godbout v. Longueuil (City), 1997 CanLII 335 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 844, at paragraph 66).
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