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The EFC and the Canadian Centre for Christian Charities (CCCC) have been granted co-intervener status before the Supreme Court of Canada in Vabuolas v. British Columbia (Information and Privacy Commissioner). The case is scheduled to be heard on October 9, 2026. The case raises an important and unresolved constitutional question: to what extent are internal religious communications and institutional deliberations protected from examination by provincial privacy regulators and

Providence Health Care is being taken to court by a family and some euthanasia advocates who are challenging the B.C. government policy which allows faith-based facilities not to provide euthanasia. The government of B.C. recognized the distinctive ethos of faith-based care institutions and developed an agreement with a group of them that “preserves the respective religious missions and values of the founding owners and sponsors of their health care facilities in the provinc

A Christian group called Harvest Ministries International had signed a rental agreement to hold a 10-day event in a government-owned convention centre in Quebec. A few weeks before the event, the provincial minister of tourism cancelled their rental contract because she deemed the organization’s pro-life beliefs to be contrary to the “fundamental principles” of the state. The EFC is part of a coalition arguing that religious groups should have equal access to public space and

The EFC and ARPA Canada (the Association for Reformed Political Action) were granted co-intervener status before the Supreme Court of Canada in a case titled Mikhail Kloubakov, et al. v. His Majesty the King (the Kloubakov case). The case was heard by the Supreme Court in November 2024. In 2021, two men, Mikhail Kloubakov and Hicham Moustaine, worked for a Quebec-based escort agency run by convicted traffickers. They were convicted of financially benefiting from prostitution

This important case in Ontario Superior Court upheld Canada's prostitution law Sept. 18, 2023. The EFC released a statement celebrating this decision and also signed onto a joint statement from a national working group of survivors of prostitution, service providers and advocates. The EFC intervened in the case in Oct. 2022 since it was a constitutional challenge to Canada’s laws on prostitution. The challenge was launched by the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform. Int

This was a BC Human Rights Tribunal case to argue for the ability of religious groups to rent their facilities in a way that is consistent with their beliefs. The EFC was granted intervenor status, but later the participants opted out of the tribunal process. This case, formally known as Klassen on behalf of White Rock Pride Society v Star of the Sea Parish, involved a Roman Catholic parish that refused to rent out their meeting facility for a fundraising event by a group who

The EFC was an intervener in a Supreme Court of Canada case about whether ecclesiastical decisions about membership and discipline are outside of the scope of judicial review. Hearings started Dec. 9, 2020 and a ruling was announced May 21, 2021. The EFC co-intervened with the Catholic Civil Rights League. The EFC welcomed the ruling in a statement. The May 2021 decision overruled an Ontario Court of Appeal decision released in January 2020 which would have permitted courts t

The EFC was granted intervener status in the Lamb case in B.C., which involved attempts to expand access to assisted suicide and euthanasia. The case would have been argued before the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The EFC was intervening with the Christian Legal Fellowship. However, the Lamb case was adjourned in September 2019 because Julia Lamb has been approved for MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). EFC-CLF Notice of Application to Intervene (Dec. 7, 2018) BC Civil L

The Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision May 15, 2019 in the forced referrals case, an appeal of the legal challenge to the Ontario requirement that doctors provide effective referrals for procedures they object to on grounds of conscience, such as euthanasia and assisted suicide. NEW! In fall 2019, the doctors and organizations who brought forward the legal challenge decided not to appeal the decision of the Ontario Appeal Court to protect against the potential of a