On Monday, April 7, all parties involved in the constitutional challenge brought forward by The Neighbourhood Group Community Services (TNGCS) and two individual Applicants will reconvene at the request of the Court.
On Friday, March 28, 2025, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued an injunction that enjoins Ontario from enforcing the rule prohibiting supervised consumption sites in Ontario from operating within 200 metres of a school of childcare centre until the Court decides on the constitutionality of the Community Care and Recovery Act. Read the decision here:
A constitutional challenge was heard in Ontario Superior Court in Toronto on Monday, March 24 and Tuesday, March 25, 2025. This challenge, brought forward by The Neighbourhood Group and two individual Applicants, will determine whether a number of life-saving supervised consumption sites (also known as Consumption and Treatment Services) in the province can continue to operate past the end of March 2025. The proceedings have concluded and the applicants are awaiting a decision.
Watch the Community Debrief and Discussion on the Charter Challenge to the Community Care and Recovery Act
Listen to our podcast episodes featuring interviews with the applicants and two of the intervenors in the Charter Challenge
- Talking to Interveners in the Charter Challenge to Ontario’s Plan to Close Safe Consumption Sites (March 25, 2025)
- Challenging the closure of safe consumption sites in Ontario (February 5, 2025)
Legal Documents:
- Factum of the Applicants in The Neighbourhood Group Community Services, Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues v. Ontario
- Reply Factum of the Applicants in The Neighbourhood Group Community Services, Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues v. Ontario
- Applicants Record in The Neighbourhood Group Community Services, Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues v. Ontario
- Factum of Ontario in The Neighbourhood Group Community Services, Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues v. Ontario
- Ontario’s Record in The Neighbourhood Group Community Services, Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues v. Ontario
- Combined factums of the interveners in The Neighbourhood Group Community Services, Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues v. Ontario
Backgrounders
- Backgrounder – Charter challenge to the Community Care and Recovery Act, 2024
- An overview of the Community Care and Recovery Act, 2024
- Rapid Q&A on the Community Care and Recovery Act, 2024
Media Releases and Statements
December 10, 2024
Media Release: The Neighbourhood Group Community Services Files Charter Challenge Against Community Care and Recovery Act
November 27, 2024
Media Statement: The Government of Ontario is Attempting to Force Through a Deadly Drug Policy Bill
August 20, 2024
Media Statement – Government of Ontario Plan Will Lead to More Preventable Drug Poisoning Deaths