From October 13, 2024:

A Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! We are deeply thankful for all the support you have shown us over the past few years, and especially now that there's only a little over three weeks left until we present our appeal arguments in front of the Court of Appeal for Ontario!

Update on Interveners

In our last message, we told you about the six organizations that submitted "intervener" arguments in the Charter Challenge - these were:

• Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights

• Women's Legal Action and Education Fund

• Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg

• Fair Vote Canada

• South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario

• Canadian Constitution Foundation

All these submissions are available on our website. We subsequently submitted our response to the interveners (mainly arguing against the CCF's argument that FPTP is somehow "constitutionalized").

Filings by Attorney General

Most recently, the Attorney General submitted both their response to the interveners, as well as their own appeal factum - essentially the argument they're going to make against our appeal case. Both these submissions are also now available on our website.

Next Steps - Prepping Our Oral Arguments

Between now and our court appearance (currently scheduled for November 5th and 6th), Nicolas will be working hard on preparing our oral arguments that we'll present in court. Over the next few weeks, we'll provide some more details on what we're planning to argue (in some previous messages, we've describes some of the arguments from our own factum - more to come!).