Animal Justice, an organization that seeks the right to trespass to document alleged animal abuse, said it will appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
It originally won a court challenge against a new Ontario law that protects animal owners from trespassers and undercover agents seeking to document animal abuse.
But that was over-turned by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
“I do not agree that the legislation violates the respondents’ Charter rights,” said the Appeal Court’s decision. “What the respondents (Animal Justice and two co-applicants) claim is a right to access the property of others on their own terms and for their own purposes. Freedom of expression does not provide for this.”
