Appeal Date Announced!

Springtide Chair
posted by | 9sc
July 16, 2024

(from May 30, 2024): Good news! We've just heard from our lawyer, Nicolas Rouleau, that the Appeal Court for Ontario has announced a tentative date for hearing our appeal in the Charter Challenge - it's currently booked for this fall, on Tuesday, November 5th in Toronto.

We've also recently "perfected" our appeal (meaning that we submitted our factum, or written argument, which lays out the basis for our appeal) - check it out here! Over the coming weeks, we'll briefly outline to you the arguments that we made in our factum and plan to argue in person in November.

And we also expect the court shortly to approve a list of "intervenors" (groups that are making "friend of the court" arguments related to our case). At this point, we know that there are 13 applications to intervene, which is great news for us as it demonstrates significant and growing interest in the Challenge (there were 4 in our first hearing). We'll let you know more once the court decides who they want to hear from.

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Key Events in the Case:

  • We're currently awaiting the appeal decision (expected in spring 2025)
  • 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.