Montréal Partner Guillaume Pelegrin analyzes a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision holding that Québec’s exclusion of refugee claimants from eligibility for subsidized childcare unconstitutionally discriminates against women based on sex, in an article published in Law360.
Guillaume Pelegrin, together with Montréal Associate Jean-François Trudelle, represented the intervener Canadian Constitution Foundation in the case.
In the article, Pelegrin notes that, “[from a constitutional perspective], the case raises important questions about whether governments will retain sufficient flexibility to craft effective social policies without every distinction being reframed as discriminatory.” He adds that, “The ruling will encourage more cautious, less targeted social program design to avoid future equality challenges.”
