The appellant, a pharmacist, was convicted of trafficking in fentanyl and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
She appealed her convictions, arguing that her s. 8 Charter rights were violated when police obtained information about her pharmacy from the regulatory college without a warrant, and that the search warrant for her home lacked sufficient grounds.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the conviction appeal, finding no reasonable expectation of privacy in the regulatory information and sufficient grounds for the warrant.
However, the Court allowed the sentence appeal, reducing the sentence to 8 years due to the extraordinary collateral consequences of a rare genetic disease affecting both the appellant and her young daughter.
