{"id":24917,"date":"2025-04-02T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=24917"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:36:17","slug":"leaf-to-intervene-in-supreme-court-case-on-access-to-subsidized-childcare-for-refugee-claimant-women","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/leaf-to-intervene-in-supreme-court-case-on-access-to-subsidized-childcare-for-refugee-claimant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAF to intervene in Supreme Court case on access to subsidized childcare for refugee claimant women\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Toronto, April 2, 2025<\/strong> \u2013 In March, the Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) was granted leave to intervene in <em>Kanyinda v. Quebec (Attorney General)<\/em>, a case about access to subsidized daycare for refugee claimants.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Kanyinda, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, entered Quebec with her three young children via Roxham Road in October 2018. She made a refugee claim once arriving and obtained a work permit while her claim was being processed. She sought subsidized daycare but was denied, because s. 3 of the <em>Reduced Contribution Regulation<\/em> (<em>Regulation<\/em>) excludes refugee claimants from eligibility for subsidized daycare.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Kanyinda challenged this exclusion as indirect discrimination based on sex\u2014since the regulation disproportionately impacts refugee claimant women\u2014and as direct discrimination based on immigration status and citizenship. While the trial judge dismissed her <em>Charter<\/em> claims, the Quebec Court of Appeal found that the regulation discriminated on the basis of sex, though it declined to consider her immigration status or citizenship claims. Quebec is now appealing this finding of discrimination.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF will be intervening to argue that a robust intersectional analysis at both stages of the s. 15 test is necessary to realize the promise of substantive equality guaranteed under s. 15. LEAF will also argue that when governments enact legislation to remedy inequality, they still have a constitutional obligation to ensure that such legislation does not leave behind the most marginalized among its targeted population.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving access to affordable childcare is critical for women\u2019s economic security. It reduces barriers to accessing paid work and helps ensure women\u2019s options aren\u2019t limited to taking on part-time and precarious work to meet the demands of caregiving,\u201d says Pam Hrick, Executive Director and General Counsel of LEAF. \u201cThis need is even more pronounced for migrant women, who are at once more likely to experience poverty and less likely to have a social network to support them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF is grateful to be represented <em>pro bono<\/em> by Olga Redko and Vanessa Ntaganda (IMK LLP) in this case.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF\u2019s interventions are guided, informed, and supported by a case committee with expertise in the relevant issues. We are grateful to this intervention\u2019s case committee members (in alphabetical order): Grace Ajele, Jennifer Koshan, and Colleen Sheppard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For media inquiries, please contact media@leaf.ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) is a national not-for-profit and charity that works to advance the equality rights of women, girls, trans, and non-binary people in Canada through litigation,\u202flaw reform,\u202fand public legal education.\u202fSince 1985, LEAF has been involved in over 145 cases that have helped shape the\u202f<em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em>. 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