Gosselin v Quebec (AG) | |
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Hearing: October 29, 2001 Judgment: December 19, 2002 | |
Full case name | Louise Gosselin v. The Attorney General of Quebec |
Citations | [2002] 4 SCR 429, 2002 SCC 84 |
Holding | |
There is violation of section 15(1) equality right for a law denying full social assistance benefits for youth. | |
Court membership | |
Chief Justice | Beverley McLachlin CJ |
Puisne Justices | Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Gonthier, Frank Iacobucci, Michel Bastarache, Ian Binnie, John C. Major, Louise Arbour, and Louis LeBel JJ |
Reasons given | |
Majority | McLachlin, joined by Gonthier, Iacobucci, Major and Binnie |
Dissent | Bastarache |
Dissent | LeBel |
Dissent | Arbour |
Dissent | L’Heureux-Dubé |
Laws applied | |
Law v Canada, [1999] 1 SCR 497 (McLachlin) |
Gosselin v Quebec (AG) [2002] 4 SCR 429, 2002 SCC 84, is the first claim under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to a right to an adequate level of social assistance. The Supreme Court of Canada rejected the Charter challenge against a Quebec law excluding citizens under age 30 from receiving full social security benefits.