TORONTO—A constitutional rights advocacy group has lost its bid for an injunction against the federal government’s quarantine hotel policy designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Canadian Constitution Foundation had asked for the injunction while waiting for the courts to rule on whether the policy for incoming international travellers is constitutional. The foundation was acting on behalf of five individuals who had to leave Canada for compassionate purposes—three of them to attend to a dying parent. “This was not the result we wanted today, but the court did recognize that the applicants in our challenge have sympathetic stories and that the constitutional questions need to be heard on the merits,” said Christine Van Geyn, the advocacy group’s litigation director. “The court also acknowledged that the applicants’ section 7 Charter liberty interests are engaged by the quarantine hotel policy,” he said. A government order that went into effect on Feb. …