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  The Great Restore — Project One: Restore Municipal Courts How Municipal Courts Were Eliminated — and Why Their Removal Violates Due Process and the Rule of Law The first project under The Great Restore is the restoration of municipal courts . This is not a policy preference. It is a constitutional repair . Across Canada, municipal courts were not eliminated through open repeal, constitutional amendment, or public debate. They were functionally erased through a quiet substitution: courts were replaced with digital administrative enforcement systems , internal reviews, and unnamed decision-makers operating outside any judicial structure. This process is now being directly challenged. Jane Scharf is currently developing both a judicial review application and a statement of claim to confront this substitution head-on—after discovering that fines she sought to reopen could not be heard at all , because no court exists to hear them . What replaced the court was not justice. ...