Restore a modern Court Challenges Program.

What success looks like

Increased protection for human rights and official language rights through a modernized Court Challenges Program.

Government's narrative on progress

Because of its commitment to strengthening and promoting Canada’s two official languages and human rights, the government reinstated a modernized Court Challenges Program. The program provides financial support to individuals or groups in Canada to access the courts for the litigation of test cases of national significance. This way, the courts can help clarify and assert certain constitutional and quasi-constitutional official language rights and human rights in Canada. The University of Ottawa has been selected to manage the modernized program. Two panels, responsible for official language rights and human rights, will assess funding applications to the Court Challenges Program for court cases of national significance and will allocate resources accordingly.

Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.