Our organization, the Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec, has used this program jointly with the Ligue des droits et libertés (Civil Liberties Union) to defend the rights of persons on social assistance. We challenge labour laws that are not respected as well as socio-economic and cultural rights. This is done in order to achieve progress and to make the Canadian government think about these things. The program is part of the resources we have to defend rights and have them respected. We organized a pan-Canadian reflection day on the right to work and the right to sufficient income in order to promote awareness of what it means in concrete terms if those rights are not respected, be it provincially or federally.
The Court Challenges Program allows us to move forward. Organizations like ours cannot afford to pay legal fees. If we want to see any progress in terms of rights, we have to have resources. I know that women's groups and movements have used this program in the past. I do not remember the exact case.
The point is really to defend rights contained in the Constitution. We work from a constitutional standpoint. However, no organization or individual can do that without this program.