However, the court had jurisdiction over the defamation claim only because it was included with claims made under a federal statute.

They preferred a constitutional amendment over a federal statute because although harder to achieve, they felt it would be harder to change.

The federal statute granting quarantine authority allows isolation or quarantine but only for individuals coming into the country from a foreign country or territory.

As a federal statute, it can be amended through the ordinary legislative process and has no application to provincial laws.

The circuit court noted that normally, when dealing with an ambiguous federal statute, courts will defer to the administrative agency charged with implementing the statute.