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CCPI
CURRENT Litigation Caron v. Alberta - Advance Costs for Access to Justice:
Interveners Motion Record RECENT Litigation CCPI's Constitutional Challenge to NAFTA - Human Rights
in Trade and Investment
Regimes CCPI Memorandum for Leave to Appeal to the Supreme Court of
Canada in NAFTA Challenge Chaoulli v. Quebc: the Right to Health for Poor People -
CCPI-CHC Intervener Factum SCC Gosselin v. Quebec CCPI FACTUM
SCC CCPI Facta (Pleadings) CCPI
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Charter Committee on Poverty Issues bringing together low-income activists and poverty law advocates to ensure that poor people are able to make more effective use of their rights CCPI is a national coalition founded in 1989 to bring
together low-income activists and poverty law advocates for the purpose of
assisting poor people in Canada to secure and assert their rights under
international human rights law, the
Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the "Charter"), human rights legislation and other laws in
Canada. The activities of CCPI fall into
three main categories: i) Initiating litigation and
intervening in cases before courts and tribunals to promote and protect
the basic human rights of poor people and to ensure that poverty issues
are more fully understood and considered by Canadian courts and
tribunals ii) Appearing before and making
submissions to United Nations Human Rights bodies to provide information
related to compliance with international human rights law and problems of
poverty in Canada; and iii) Engaging in research into
how Canadian or international law can be used by poor people to address
their needs and to promote compliance with international and domestic
human rights guarantees. Please note that CCPI works with its coalition partners and does not do individual casework. For legal assistance contact your local legal aid office or clinic. ---------------------------------------------------------------- New: CCPI Intervenes
for Access to Justice for Immigrants Living in Poverty
SRAC co-ordinated the intervention of the Charter
Committee on Poverty Issues in intervening at the Federal Court in an
important legal challenge to the refusal of the Government
of Canada to waive fees for impoverished applicants for Humanitarian
and Compassionate Review under the Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act. CCPI sought and was granted leave
to intervene at the Federal Court of Appeal in the appeal of this decision
inNell Toussaint v. Minister of Citizenship and
Immigration Federal Court of Appeal File No. A-408-09 See the case update,
memoranda of argument and other documents:
Access to Justice - Advance Costs Awards
CCPI has joined in coalition with three other Equality Seeking Groups (LEAF, CCD, PHRC) to seek leave to Intervene at the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Alberta v. Caron SCC File No. 33092. The case deals with eligibility for advance costs awards in public interest Charter litigation concerns the discretion of the Courts to award advance costs to claimants who would otherwise be unable to litigate their public interest claims. The decision of the Supreme Court will have significant implications for access to justice for disadvantaged and marginalized groups. See Interveners Motion Record ---------------------------------------------------------------- CCPI Intervenes at the Supreme Court of Canada in Chaoulli to Argue for Right to Health for Poor People A Right to Healthcare only if You Can Pay for it " (2005) 6 ESR Review. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CCPI Challenges the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) For Failing to Protect Fundamental
Human Rights Bruce
Porter, " Canadian Constitutional
Challenge to NAFTA Raises Critical Issues of Human Rights in Trade and
Investment Regimes " (2005) 2 ESC
Law Quarterly.
CCPI Memorandum for Leave to Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada See also the following from Superior Court Trial
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