John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, was arrested over charges he hired a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge involved in a COVID-19 public health order case.
In a statement issued on Jan. 1, the Justice Centre said Carpay was made aware of the charges on Dec. 30, and turned himself in to police. He was released on bail after spending 23 hours in detention, the statement said.
Carpay had stepped away from his position after it emerged that he had hired a private investigator in June 2021 to follow Chief Justice Glenn Joyal to see if he would violate any public health rules related to COVID-19. At the time, Joyal was overseeing a case involving a number of churches in Manitoba represented by the Justice Centre, challenging pandemic public health orders that restricted church operations….