LEAF: Women's Legal Education and Action Fund

Today's Court

Today, when gains won are threatened, or when ways to expand women’s equality are identified, LEAF acts. By gaining intervener status at the Appellate or Supreme Court level LEAF is continually shaping the equality guarantees in Canada’s Charter. LEAF’s expertise is crucial to pushing important considerations forward.

Persons Day Breakfast Gala

Attracting thousands of professional and academic attendees nationwide to advance equality for Canadian women and girls through legal intervention and education.

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Tomorrow's Promise

What does discrimination look like? What is harassment? Our Trailblazers, Youth Commission and Speakers' Bureau projects are volunteer-driven.  They provide forums for girls and women to hear and talk about equality rights in terms of their own lives and futures. It brings girls, lawyers, and educators together to learn how equality is achieved in our homes, communities and courts.

Founding Mother

It’s not okay if men are treated better than women. LEAF’s founding mothers argued that at a time when many Canadians still saw women as secondary to men. By April 15, 1985, when Section 15 of Canada’s Constitution was enacted, they had made sure women’s equality rights were front and center. Two days later they formed LEAF to ensure fair interpretation of women’s rights by the courts.