The Ontario judge overseeing the legal challenge of the province's ban on supervised consumption sites that are within 200 metres of schools and daycares unexpectedly recalled court Monday in a bid to understand whether he had all the facts to decide the case.
Justice John Callaghan heard arguments in late March from The Neighbourhood Group, which runs a consumption site in downtown Toronto. The organization, along with two of its users, argued the new law violates the Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because the sites save lives.
The province says the legislation violates neither and its lawyers argued the case is merely about regulating the sites' locations.