Former premier Brian Peckford says he’s confident higher courts will soon start siding with the unvaccinated.

Peckford is leading a Federal Court challenge of Ottawa’s ban on air travel for those who choose not to get the shot.

He’s doing it on behalf of the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which fights to ensure Charter rights in the courts.

Peckford acknowledges that judges, including in this province, have so far upheld public health mandates.

But he believes the highest courts will soon see things the unvaccinated way.

He likened it to a hockey game, saying they’re only in the second period, adding he’s reviewed rulings to date where the courts have tried to put a “round peg in a square hole.”

Peckford, who remains unvaccinated, was premier of the province for a decade, from 1979 until 1989.

A few years later he moved to British Columbia, where’s he’s been living ever since.