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Kanyinda v Quebec: Interventions and Translations of Documents

The Ongoing Nell Toussaint case on right to life of irregular migrants and healthcare

The National Housing Strategy Act and the right to housing in Canada

Implementation of International Human Rights in Canada: The Ongoing Struggle

The 2019 Toronto Housing Charter and its Implementation Plan

The Tanudjaja Charter challenge to the failure to address homelessness

Canada Without Poverty v. Canada (AG) on freedom of chairities to engage in political activity

Charter Committee on Poverty Issues Interventions

Social Rights In Canada Community-University Research Project

Challenging the Implementation Gap: The Ongoing Struggle for International Human Rights in Canada

New & Interesting

CCPI/CHC/FCJRC and AI/ESCR-Net file facta in Toussaint v Canada

ESCR-Net/SRAC Submission on Toussaint Case and Access to Justice for Canada's Universal Periodic Review

CCPI Submission on Access to Justice for Social Rights for Canada's 2024 Universal Periodic Review

Michèle Biss, Bruce Porter, Sahar Raza, & David Desbaillets, Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing: A Literature Review

Three papers on implementing the right to housing under the National Housing Strategy Act

Presentations to Dept of Justice and OGD on National Housing Strategy Act with NRHN and WNHHN

Charities liberated to engage in public policy after groundbreaking decn of Justice Ed Morgan in Canada Without Poverty v Canada

CERA and National Right to Housing Network SUBMISSION under the National Housing Strategy Act.

Bruce Porter, La interdependencia de · los derechos humanos in Derechos sociales y el momento constituyente de Chile: Perspectivas globales y locales para el debate constitucional (Distrito Global, 2021)

Bruce Porter, Implementing the Right to Adequate Housing Under the National Housing Strategy Act: The International Human Rights Framework (2021) (en francais)

Martha Jackman & Bruce Porter "Social and Economic Rights" in P. Oliver, P. Macklem and N. Des Rosiers, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (New York, Oxford Univesity Press, 2017) at pp 843-866.

Martha Jackman and Bruce Porter (eds)  Advancing Social Rights in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014)

From the Archives

1992 Alternative Social Charter

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Women's and Migrants' Right to Equality and Access to Affordable Childcare :Québec v. Bijou Cibuabua Kanyinda, et al

What's at Stake in the Kanyinda Appeal?

Webcast of Hearing

Documents

Intervener Motions

CCPI Motion Record

ESCR-Net Motion Record

FCJ Refugee Centre/Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre Motion Record

NAWL Motion Record

AG Reponse

AG Response eng tr

Kanyinda Réponse

CCPI Reply

Facta on Positive Obligations under Section 15

CCPI Factum

ESCR-Net Factum

Facta on Immigration Status under International Law

Amnistie internationale Canada francophone.pdf

Amnestie internationale francophone (English translation - no footnotes)

FCJ and Madhu Centres

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Key Documents


Procureur général du Québec c. Kanyinda, 2024 QCCA 144

Kanyinda c. Procureur général du Québec, 2022 QCCS 1887

Mémoire de l'Intimée (Kanyinda)(CA)

Factum of Appellant (Kanyinda) (CA) eng tr

Demande d'Autorisation d'Appel

Appellant Memorandum for Leave to Appeal eng tr

Réponse de l’intimée

Respondents Response to Motion for Leave to Appeal (engl tr)

Mémoire de l’appelant (SCC)

Factum of the Appellant (eng tr)

Mémoire de l’intimée

Factum of the Respondent (eng tr)

Recueil de sources de l'intimée

 

 

All Intervener Facta

AG Alberta

AG Ontario

AG British Columbia

Association québécoise des avocats et avocates (AQAADI) Modifié.pdf

Central des syndicats du Québec

Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF)

Association québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l'immigration

Advocates for the Rule of Law

British Columbia Civil Liberties Association

Charter Committee on Poverty Issues (CCPI)

ESCR-Net

FCJ and Madhu Centres

Income Security Advocacy Centre

Council for Refugees (CCR)

NAWL and DAC

Amnistie internationale Canada francophone.pdf

Amnestie internatoinale francophone (English translation - no footnotes)

Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA).pdf

The Refugee Centre

Black Action Defense Committee

Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers

Canadian Association of Black Lawyers and Black Legal Action Centre (CABL BLAC)

UN High Commissioner for Refugees