What is the scope of the "right to liberty" under s. 7 of the Criminal Code of Canada?

Section 7 protects the liberty and security interests of the Plaintiffs. The right to liberty under s. 7 encompasses physical restraint which usually arises in the context of the criminal law or other proceedings where there is a possibility of imprisonment. In Godbout v. Longueil (City) LaForest J. expanded the liberty interest protected by s. 7 as follows: The autonomy protected by the s. 7 right to liberty encompasses only those matters that can properly be characterized as fundamentally or inherently personal such that, by their very nature, they implicate basic choices going to the core of what it means to enjoy individual dignity and independence (Godbout v. Longueil (City), 1997 CanLII 335 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 844, at para. 66).