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EXCLUSIVE: Justice Centre warns mandatory airport biometrics could raise Charter concerns

Ottawa’s biometric airport push is drawing a Charter warning over facial and fingerprint scans for domestic flights.

Alex Dhaliwal
Sep 23, 2026
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The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms warns that mandatory biometrics for domestic flights could raise Section 8 Charter concerns over unreasonable search and seizure.

“A government requirement that Canadians surrender fingerprints or facial information as a condition of domestic air travel would therefore ra…

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