When politicians don't stand up for our civil rights, it's up to citizens to fight for those rights in court. Nobody else can do it for us.

Since the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms was established in the 1980s, the courts have been ruling in favour of fair and equal representation in Canadian and provincial elections. Now, we're challenging the (un)fairness of the first-past-the-post voting system itself. 

Donate to make sure our challenge is fully heard in court. 

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    Springtide Chair
    posted by | 9sc
    December 30, 2024

    Thank you, thank you, thank you

    Amazing Milestones! As 2024 draws to a close, we're so grateful for all the support we've received over the past year. Thanks to all of our wonderful supporters, we were able to prepare and present our appeal in the Charter Challenge for Fair Voting at the Court of Appeal for Ontario last month, and just a couple of days ago we closed out our fundraising round to support preparing a "leave to appeal" application to the Supreme Court of Canada that we expect to submit sometime in late spring or early summer of 2025 (special thanks to a generous contributor who topped up donations over the past month by 25%!).  
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    Springtide Chair
    posted by | 9sc
    December 30, 2024

    Our Day in Court

    From November 5, 2024: Today was our big day - we presented our appeal in the Court of Appeal for Ontario in front of a panel of three judges - Justices Grant Huscroft, Jonathan Dawe, and Gary Trotter. If you'd like see a play-by-play commentary of what went down, check out our tweets here.
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Key Events in the Case:

  • We're currently awaiting the appeal decision (expected in spring 2025)
  • We submitted a response in March 2025 re: the relevance of the SCC Working Families case
  • We presented our appeal in the Court of Appeal for Ontario in November 2024
  • We submitted our appeal factum in April 2024
  • We filed our Notice of Appeal in December 2023
  • Justice Ed Morgan issued his ruling in November 2023 and unfortunately dismissed our application
  • The case was heard in September 2023 in the Ontario Superior Court
  • We received the government's affidavits in fall 2022
  • We served the government with our affidavit and evidence package in May 2021
  • We filed the case with the Ontario Superior Court in October 2019

How you can help

The main way you can help is to support the case financially. We are now asking for pledges totalling $60,000 to support us appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada, if they grant us leave to appeal in mid-2025.

What to expect

At each step, we set new pledge or donation goals based on our estimate of the costs for the next stage of the process, and invite our supporters to contribute towards that goal to ensure the case can continue to move forward. We don't ask for or collect funds until we're sure we're going to take the associated step.