This case is about systemic anti-Black racism and racial profiling by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LEAF is intervening before the Supreme Court of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Luamba is a Black Haitian student in Montreal who received his driver\u2019s license in 2019. In just over a year, police detained him without reason three separate times, asked for his ID, and released him without a ticket. Police carried out these stops under the authority of section 636 of Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Highway Safety Code<\/em>, which allows for routine motor vehicle stops without cause and not as part of a structured traffic stop program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Luamba brought a constitutional challenge to section 636 under sections 7, 9, and 15 of the Charter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trial judge held that s. 636 violates sections 7, 9, and 15 of the Charter and cannot be saved under s. 1. The Qu\u00e9bec Court of Appeal held that section 636 violates sections 9 and 15 of the Charter <\/em>and cannot be saved under section 1. The Attorney General of Quebec appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\nArguments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n