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Fighting For The Right To Housing In Canada, Tracy Heffernan, Fay Faraday, Peter Rosenthal
Fighting For The Right To Housing In Canada, Tracy Heffernan, Fay Faraday, Peter Rosenthal
Fay Faraday
This paper examines Tanudjaja v Attorney General—the “Right to Housing” case. The authors, co-counsel on the case, discuss the context of the case, the nature of the application, and the legal underpinnings of the section 7 and 15 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms claims, including positive obligations under the Charter and international law, innovative procedure taking a systemic approach to challenging oppressive legislation, and innovative supervisory orders. The authors examine the procedural and substantive implications of the provincial and federal governments’ move to strike the case, parse the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Appeal decisions …