Appeal from the denial of charitable registration to an organization serving immigrant and visible minority women through employment-related workshops, counselling, and referral supports.
The majority held that the organization’s primary educational purpose could fit within an expanded understanding of the advancement of education, but the organization still failed because its purposes and activities were not exclusively charitable and were too vague and broad to confine it to charitable activities alone.
The Court declined to undertake wholesale reform of the common law definition of charity, leaving any major expansion to Parliament.
The equality challenge under s. 15 of the Charter was also rejected.
