Over 100 animal rights advocates gathered outside a Toronto courthouse Monday to voice support for a lawsuit filed by Animal Justice against the so-called “Ag-Gag Law.”

The law prohibits animal rights activists and journalists from conducting undercover investigations and filming animal cruelty at farms and slaughterhouses. Animal rights advocates argue the Security From Trespass and Animal Safety Act, as it is formally called, violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Arguments in the case began Monday in Ontario Superior Court.

“Undercover exposés inside farms and slaughterhouses are one of the only sources of information that the public has regarding how animals are treated on farms,” said Camille Labchuk, a lawyer and the executive director of Animal Justice, explaining why the group went to court. “There is no transparency about what happens behind closed doors.”

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Camille Labchuk, a lawyer and the executive director of Animal Justice, outside the Ontario Superior Court on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. Photo by: Abdul Matin Sarfraz

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