TORONTO — Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association appear today at the Supreme Court of Canada as intervenors in the case of Pepa c. Canada (Ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration).
This case concerns whether a permanent resident visa holder maintains a right to appeal where an administrative delay outside their control results in their visa expiring.
In this case, the Immigration Appeal Division held that a permanent resident visa holder did not have a right to appeal because by the time an exclusion order was issued their visa had expired and the applicant was no longer considered a visa holder for the purposes of the appeal provision.
The CCLA intervened in this case to ensure that there is meaningful access to a statutory appeal right of tribunal decisions.
“It would be arbitrary and unfair to deny individuals meaningful access to appeal administrative decisions because of circumstances beyond their control,” said Harini Sivalingam, Director of the Equality Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
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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