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Scott Stinson: Ontario Appeal Court hands Doug Ford a win, allows bike lane removals

'There is no Charter right to bicycle lanes,' the court ruled

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The next time Doug Ford goes on one of his off-script rants about activist judges, he might want to include a qualifier.

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Not all judges, that is.

Scott Stinson: Ontario Appeal Court hands Doug Ford a win, allows bike lane removals Back to video

The Ontario Court of Appeal delivered a big win for the Ontario Premier on Friday, overturning a lower court decision that had blocked the province’s plan to rip up bike lanes on three downtown Toronto streets.

The initial court decision found that removing bike lanes amounted to a violation of the right to personal safety found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the Appeal Court, in a 3-0 decision, comprehensively dismissed that idea.

Among the many flaws it found in the initial court ruling, the Court of Appeal said that the province’s bike-lane removal was “the sort of decision legislatures make routinely without attracting any concerns about the constitutionality of........

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