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The COVID-19 Emergency Response Act received royal assent in Canada on March 25, 2020. It contains amendments to both the Patent Act and the Food and Drugs Act. These amendments are now the law.

In Dorceus v Ontario, 2026 ONCA 321, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld an order to strike a Statement of Claim containing broad allegations about the Ontario government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision reaffirmed that courts are not political institutions and that legally unfounded claims are appropriately weeded out by motion to strike, even if characterized as “novel”.