Thank you for that question.
On behalf of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, I'm happy to say there were two cases in which we were the litigants, the parties, not just intervenors. I'm very happy to say we have a 100% success rate. One of them was the doctors' case I mentioned earlier, when the former government decided to slash health care for refugee claimants and the Federal Court concluded that it was cruel and unusual treatment, that lives were at risk, that the government was intentionally inflicting suffering on a vulnerable group. Those were the conclusions of Justice Mactavish of the Federal Court. That was our case, along with our partners, the Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care.
In the other case, we challenged the constitutionality of the former government's designated country of origin regime, which discriminated on the basis of country of origin. That law is actually still in place. We're very much hoping the government will remove that. We've had encouraging signs from the Minister of Immigration that in fact it will be scrapped. In that case, the Federal Court decided that denying an appeal on the basis of your country of origin was a violation of the charter and was discriminatory.
To answer your second question, yes, many of us do work with our members of Parliament on individual cases. I'm glad to say that since the last election it has been a successful thing. It used to be something that didn't help, and now it does in many compelling cases across Canada. As an association, we have been in very close contact, as I mentioned, with the former immigration minister, Mr. McCallum, and Mr. Hussen, the current immigration minister, as well as many members of Parliament. We'll be be meeting with many of you, many members of Parliament, next week when several of us will be coming to Ottawa. We've also met with Public Safety Minister Goodale. We've very much appreciated the opportunity to have this kind of dialogue and sharing of information and working together to improve the determination process and refugee protection across Canada.