TORONTO — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has been granted leave to intervene at the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Pepa v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration).
This case concerns whether a permanent resident visa holder’s right to appeal is extinguished where an administrative delay outside the control of the visa holder results in their visa expiring.
In this case, the Immigration Appeal Division held that a permanent resident visa holder does not have a right to appeal an exclusion order because by the time the exclusion order was the visa had expired and the applicant was no longer a visa holder.
The CCLA is intervening in this case at the Supreme Court of Canada to ensure that there is meaningful access to a statutory appeal right in adjudicative decisions. The CCLA argues that statutory appeal rights must be interpreted in accordance with fundamental principles of the rule of law and procedural fairness.
L'ACLC est reconnaissante d'être représentée pro bono on this intervention by Nadia Effendi and Teagan Markin of BLG LLP
À propos de l’association canadienne sur les libertés civiles
L’ACLC est un organisme indépendant à but non lucratif qui compte des sympathisant.e.s dans tout le pays. Fondé en 1964, c’est un organisme qui œuvre à l’échelle du Canada à la protection des droits et des libertés civiles de toute sa population.
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