The applicant, convicted of multiple sexual assaults, intentionally failed to report to the provincial sex offender registry to challenge the constitutionality of Christopher's Law.
He argued that the mandatory registration and lifetime reporting provisions violated s. 7 of the Charter.
Applying the Supreme Court's reasoning in Ndhlovu, the court found that both provisions were overbroad because they captured offenders who posed no increased risk of reoffending.
The court rejected the Crown's argument that the provincial registry's focus on time-sensitive investigations justified the overbreadth under s. 1.
The provisions were declared unconstitutional as applied to the applicant, and the charge of failing to report was stayed.
