Welcome to the third and final post in our three-part, 12-section series The Charter’s Blind Spot. In this installment, we bring together everything uncovered in the first two posts — the legal, structural, and moral failures that allowed governments, institutions, and courts to evade Charter accountability during one of the most consequential periods in modern Canadian history.

This week’s Manitoba Stronger Together Zoom call brings you a powerful double feature designed to inform, inspire, and equip you for the civic challenges ahead. We are pleased to welcome Brad Williams from the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project, and we will also be reviewing the newly released Winnipeg Metropolitan Region (WMR) Survey together with Ken Drysdale.

Section 5: Delegated Coercion — How Governmental Policy Captured the Medical Profession 5.1 The Mechanism of Delegation Throughout the COVID-19 period, Canadian governments achieved unprecedented control over the practice of medicine without the need for new constitutional powers. The mechanism was deceptively simple: policy by delegation . Federal and provincial executives issued public-health directives; regulatory colleges converted those directives into binding profession

Jason will guide us through a timely and provocative conversation on “Alberta’s Next Chapter: Sovereignty, Self-Determination & the Road Ahead.” We’ll explore the motivations behind Alberta’s Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, what it represents for provincial autonomy, and how it challenges long-standing assumptions about the balance of power between Ottawa and the provinces.

In early 2023, a Canadian woman named Sheila Lewis died — not because a medical treatment failed, but because she was denied access to that treatment under the authority of a government-designed, government-funded, and government-controlled health system. Days later, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to even hear her case. Around the same time, an Ontario man named Garnet Harper died after being refused a kidney transplant for similar reasons.

Join us for our final live Manitoba Stronger Together event of 2025 — an evening to celebrate what we have built together, honour the efforts of our members, and look ahead to a pivotal year as we prepare for the Manitoba 2026 municipal elections. This special Christmas gathering replaces our regular Tuesday Zoom call. Instead of meeting online, we’ll come together in person at the Matao Event Centre in Selkirk for fellowship, encouragement, and a festive year-end wrap-up.

Click on the Image above to join the Zoom Meeting on Tuesday at 6:30 pm CST Our Logo ... Want to Know More? Scroll to the Bottom of this page! Please join on time, we start and finish on time. Usually I am in the chat ten minutes before the start of the meeting!

Click on the Image above to join the Zoom Meeting on Tuesday at 6:30 pm CST Our Logo ... Want to Know More? Scroll to the Bottom of this page! Please join on time, we start and finish on time. Usually I am in the chat ten minutes before the start of the meeting!