A terminally ill woman is seeking a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutionality of the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for receiving an organ transplant, says the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
Sheila Annette Lewis, who is not vaccinated for COVID-19, filed a leave to appeal application this week against Alberta Health Services (AHS) and six doctors who reportedly removed her from an organ transplant list on which she had high-priority status.
JCCF said on Jan. 11 that Lewis has been challenging the constitutionality of COVID-19 vaccination requirements for transplant candidates put in place by AHS for the past year, but was unsuccessful at both the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench and the Alberta Court of Appeal in 2022. Both found that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms doesn’t apply to the COVID-19 vaccine policies of AHS, the Alberta Hospital where she would receive her transplant, or her transplant doctors….