LEAF - the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund - is a national charitable organization that works toward ensuring the law guarantees substantive equality for all women in Canada.




We've come a long way. On April 17 2010, Canadians will celebrate 25 years of constitutionally enriched equality rights for women since the enactment of Section 15, the equality section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
More information on the 25th Anniversary

Nominate a lawyer in recognition of our 25th Anniversary.
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Call for Board and Committee Volunteers

LEAF invites community activists, lawyers, academics, and anyone else who cares about women's equality in Canada to share your talents with us.

We have Board and Committee vacancies to be filled in June, 2010. LEAF is at a particularly dynamic moment in its history. It is rapidly expanding the many ways it works to enhance women's equality in Canada. We have a number of exciting education, litigation, and communication plans underway and we need your help.
Recruitment Notice

Volunteer Application Form

Treasurer Notice

Job Opportunity Director of Communications


Show your support for the equality of women, through the purchase of a t-shirt and by becoming a member or donor of LEAF. To order a t-shirt (Pink font- Womens/ Black font -Mens) click here

To pay by cheque, click here to download order form

LEAF to Seek Leave in Alberta v. Caron

LEAF Granted Leave to Intervene in Withler v. Canada

Submission to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

Supreme Court of Canada misses opportunity to redress discrimination against Aboriginal Women

LEAF responds to comments made by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice

Submission on Pay Equity to the House of Commons Status of Women Committee

Submissions to the Canadian Human Rights Commission of a proposed Canadian human rights report card prototype

LEAF's 2008/09 Annual Report



Equality Rights in Family Law: Spousal and Child Support

This booklet provides an overview of some of the changes to spousal and child support laws since the Charter

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  • To ensure the rights of women and girls in Canada, as guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are upheld in our courts, human rights commissions and government agencies; and

  • To take actions to reveal how factors such as race, class, Aboriginal status, sexual orientation, ability, and religion compound discrimination against women.

    [more about LEAF's vision, role and approach]