
An appeal from two men who claimed that their inclusion on Canada’s no-fly list violated their Charter rights has denied by The Federal Court of Appeal . Bhagat Singh Brar and Parvkar Singh Dulai lost their constitutional challenge of Canada’s Secure Air Travel Act in the lower court after they weren’t allowed to board planes in Vancouver in 2018.
The ruling says the act allows the public safety minister to ban people from flying if there are reasonable grounds to suspect they will threaten transportation security or travel by air to commit a terrorism offence.
It says the public safety minister had reasonable grounds to suspect the pair would travel by air to commit a terrorism offence.