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The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada was granted leave to intervene by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission v. William Whatcott case which was heard on October 12, 2011. This case involves the expression of religious comment in public policy dialogue. The EFC, along with a large number of other interveners, was granted permission to make written and verbal arguments to the Court. The EFC's arguments were made by EFC Vice-President and Genera

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

How this Decision Affects Your Ministry For information about how the Christian Horizons decision may affect your ministry, view the video above and read 'How (Not) to Read Heintz v. Christian Horizons' by Don Hutchinson, who at that time was EFC General Legal Counsel. Legal Submissions Factum of the Intervenor, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, as submitted to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) Commentary Lessons for Christian Ministries from Heintz

Legal Submissions (September 2006) Written legal arguments in the Spratt case. This case challenges the constitutionality of the B.C. law that prohibits protesting abortion within a certain bubble zone around abortion clinics. Spratt Factum, B.C. Court of Appeal, Sept 2006 Media Releases Alliance Before Appeal Court in Abortion Bubble Zone Case, 9/14/2007Alliance Files Factum in Abortion Bubble Zone Case, 9/18/2007

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

The Supreme Court, by an eight to one majority, ordered the BCCT to approve TWU’s education program. The EFC was an intervenor and appeared before the Court in the case. The majority judgment states, “Absent concrete evidence that training teachers at TWU fosters discrimination in the public schools of B.C., the freedom of individuals to adhere to certain religious beliefs while at TWU should be respected.” The majority judgment said that “tolerance of divergent beliefs is a

(2001) The EFC intervened in the Latimer case before the Supreme Court of Canada. Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer was convicted of second degree murder in the death of his disabled daughter Tracy. Mr. Latimer appealed his conviction and sentence, arguing, among other things, that he should have been able to argue the defence of necessity before the lower court, essentially that he had no choice but to kill his daughter Tracy. The EFC joined Physicians for Life and the Chri