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The EFC is launching a free Saturday morning workshop series called Faith Matters: Current Issues Facing the Canadian Church. The first one will be held June 8 at Kanata Baptist Church. Register today to hear either one of these presentations followed by a light lunch: MAiD in Canada: A matter of life and death Presenter: Dr. David Guretzki, EFC President and Resident Theologian How did we get here and what changes are happening with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)? Why sh

Case Summary S.L. v. Commission scolaire des Chênes (hereafter, the "Drummondville" case), a case originating in Quebec, addressed whether parents have the right to choose the kind of education their children will receive, particularly in regard to religious instruction. The case cut to the core of what freedom of religion and conscience and parental authority mean in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision in the case on February 17, 2012. Read our media re

Three Parents Case The Supreme Court of Canada decided on September 13 not to hear the appeal of the Three Parent Case (AA v BB) from Ontario. In its decision, the court indicated it was not deciding whether or not the case presented "issues worthy of consideration by this Court or whether the Court of Appeal's judgment is well founded." The decision was only in regard to whether or not the Alliance for Marriage and the Family (AMF), of which the EFC was a member, could appe

Legal Submissions (July 2002) Legal arguments before the Supreme Court of British Columbia on the definition of marriage. Supreme Court of British Columbia Appeal (2001) Legal arguments of the Interfaith Coalition for Marriage before the B.C. Court of Appeal on the definition of marriage. Interfaith Coalition Factum

Ontario Court of Appeal (January 2003) The factum of the Interfaith Coalition on Marriage and Family in Halpern v. Ontario, the marriage case before the Ontario court of appeal. Legal Submissions Intervention Factum Ontario Divional Court (2001) Legal arguments of the Inter-Faith Coalition on Marriage before the Ontario Divisional Court Legal Submissions Intervention Factum

Definition of "Spouse" to include same-sex partners (1998) EFC intervened in the Supreme Court of Canada case on the definition of spouse in provincial family legislation,M. v. H. One partner in a lesbian relationship which had ended applied for spousal support under Ontario's Family Law Act. She argued that the definition of spouse in the Family Law Act should include same-sex partners. As a member of the Interfaith Coalition for Marriage and the Family, EFC argued that the

Sexual orientation is an analogous ground of discrimination. (1994) The EFC intervened in the Supreme Court of Canada in this case on the definition of spouse in federal legislation. Two men who had been cohabiting for a number of years argued that the opposite-sex definition of spouse in the Old Age Security Act was unconstitutional. As a member of the Interfaith Coalition for Marriage and the Family, the EFC argued that the definition of spouse is not discriminatory and tha

The EFC intervened in the Supreme Court of Canada. Docket 22145: Canadian Human Rights Commission v. Department of Secretary of State, et al. http://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/dock-regi-eng.aspx?cas=22145