Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

And so that then brought the judge to the challenge brought by the accused here.

And the challenge was a constitutional one, arguing that the law surrounding being in possession for the purpose of trafficking was in violation of a couple of sections of the charter, including in particular the right to be Section 7, life, liberty, security of the person, except in accordance with principles of justice.

And so that is the decision that the judge just analyzed.

And how the judge goes about doing that is fascinating.

The judge concludes, look, there's evidence more people are dying, fewer people die if they get this rather than whatever they were doing.

That's the evidence the judge had.

And then you look at Section 7, life, liberty, security of the person, and one of the ways that's analyzed is you need to look at things like – this comes from other – well, it's a long line of cases on it.

When you're analyzing whether something violates that and whether it's in accordance with principles of fundamental justice because you can, in fact, have laws that deprive people of life, liberty, security of the person – if it is done in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.