Adam Skelly – Justice Denied in Court!
Last time we spoke, Adam Skelly’s legal showdown was about to begin. After 6 years of twists, turns, and multiple near-death experiences, Adam’s case finally got its day in court in February. His lawyer presented all the elaborate evidence with 6 high-level experts, while the government had 1 expert. In a shocking outcome, the application was denied, without Adam’s evidence being so much as mentioned.
Adam’s team released a statement which stated in part: “[we] are disappointed, disheartened and frankly, disturbed at the outcome of the [hearing]…the application judge said near the end of the hearing she would judge this matter on its merits. Unfortunately, she did not.” Adam’s team says the judge “disappeared 500 pages of unrefuted, expert evidence.”
On Thursday of this week, I will have a brand new interview with Adam to share all the details.
As you know, this has been one of the craziest legal sagas of the decade, with multiple ups-and-downs, and multiple “near-death” experiences, including a critical public health expert dropping out, and the government requiring over $30,000 in costs to keep the case going. All of these challenges have been met and overcome by Adam and his team.
Adam Skelly was the one of the first people to stand against the government’s draconian lockdowns in 2020. Before Heroic Pastors, before the Freedom Convoy, Adam Skelly exploded onto the scene by opening up his restaurant, Adamson BBQ, defying the lockdowns, and became the first business owner in the history of Canada (even North America) to be arrested for disobeying a public health order (truly shocking).
Adam is the only person left with standing in court to challenge the government’s emergency lockdowns during COVID. Therefore it is critical that this case goes forward. No one else can bring a case to challenge the governments action during covid as the 2 year limitations period has passed, and there are no other cases in the court system already.
Adam’s team has already filed their appeal. The judge did not even mention any of their 500 pages of evidence. The government didn’t even try to refute it or discredit Adam’s experts. They just simply ignored it. Adam’s team believes this is a critical and appealable mistake by the judge who was supposed to give a fair hearing where all of the evidence would be weighed.
This case is going forward to the Ontario Court of Appeal – and Adam needs your help to see it through. Would you please support Adam today?
Adam’s team, in their statement, go on to say that the principles of fundamental justice are rooted in the pursuit of truth, fairness and unbiased proceedings. They believe that the “truth-seeking function of the court was plainly and obviously unfulfilled.”
As for the evidence, Adam’s team says the preponderance of evidence has been in their favour since it was initially sworn in 2021. However, even though the judge mentioned the province’s lone expert (Dr. Hodge) 16 separate times, and Dr. Devilla (former Toronto officer of health) or the Ministry of Health over 100 times, she mentioned Adam’s 6 experts a total of zero times.
This failure to grapple with their evidence is a fatal flaw of this ruling. Adam’s case had six high-level PhD or MD experts including Dr. Harvey Risch from Yale, and Dr. Byram Bridle. That not one of them was mentioned is really unbelievable.
Adam’s case is significant because his legal defense is going to the heart of the COVID narrative relied on by the government. Some other cases have failed because the basic tenets of the pandemic have been conceded, and the argument became about whether the government’s response was reasonable. Unfortunately, without arguing over the basic definitions of what happened during COVID-19, it’s very challenging to win a case.
Adam has has been through many ups and downs including having to shut down his three restaurants. He’s now living in Alberta, homesteading and making a living through a small farming operation. This is very challenging work, as you can imagine. Nonetheless, he has not given up on this case, and the events that took so much from him.
My new interview with Adam will be out later this week.
Adam’s story begins early in 2020, during the first lockdowns, when Adam made the courageous decision to open up his famous BBQ restaurant in Etobicoke, notwithstanding lockdown orders. The police changed his locks, but he broke into his own restaurant, defying the prohibition. As Adam relates the story, over 250 police were called to deal with the situation, even horse mounted cavalry, and he was hauled off to jail, but not before making news all across the country.
In our last interview, Adam told us the full extent of the assault by government. For example, Adam has received both provincial and criminal charges for trying to keep his restaurant open, and the outcome of this hearing will impact all of them.
He says the Toronto Board of Health has come after him in a civil claim, trying to get their $187,000 back that they spent to hire the police to shut down Adam’s restaurant! As Adam says: “Remember the videos from that protest? They had the street for like half a km in each direction full of police cars, there must have been 80 police cruisers, both lanes totally blocked…Costco just up the street was packed full of people [shopping normally]…they hired Toronto police…paid them overtime…the mounted unit, [my] whole building covered with police shoulder to shoulder. They spent $187,000 enforcing the closure order, and now they’re trying to recover that money from me, we countersued, and brought Eileen Devilla into it, saying she acted outside of her authority as the medical officer of health.” It’s not enough they destroyed his business, they want him to pay for the police used to do it.
As for this hearing, as I’ve mentioned before, they tried various tricks to shut down Adam’s case before it even had it’s day in court. For example, they required Adam to come up with 30k to even have the case heard, as “security” for costs. But with your help, we helped him meet that challenge, and Adam was able to schedule his hearing for last October! They then required his expert evidence to be resworn, which caused the issue with the one expert who didn’t want to recommit.
Adam stood out on a limb and became a major focal point for freedom in Canada. Adam’s case is the last chance we have to challenge the government’s actions during COVID-19. Adam must appeal this case, for all of us. He is the only one left with standing to challenge the government’s actions during COVID. Will you help today?
Please help Adam raise $60,000 to complete this case.
Adam’s appeal being shut down is disheartening, but in a case of this magnitude, it would have been appealed by the government in any event if Adam had won. In all likelihood, this kind of case must go to the Supreme Court of Canada.
On the bright side, Adam recently received an offer to settle his criminal charges he received for breaking the locks on his own property. He will get away with a small charitable donation, some community service, and most importantly no criminal record. With his loss in this constitutional case, they could have hammered him harder, but they chose not to. That’s good news.
Even though Adam has had to give up his life and restaurants in Ontario, he has a thriving farm, family, and faith life in Alberta.
This appeal must go forward. I’m so proud of the courage and tenacity of Adam and his team.
Even though he lost his restaurants and his life in Ontario, he’s not backing down.
Adam Skelly’s case was one of the first prominent COVID-19 cases filed, please support him to continue it.
Stay tuned for more details!
Thanks so much for your support!
God bless!
