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M. v. H.
Canada Supreme Court
[1999] 2 S.C.R. 3, 171 D.L.R. 4th 577 (1999)
- Written by John Reeves, JD
Facts
A Canadian law (the support law) mandated that any male-female couple who were unmarried but who had cohabitated for at least three years provide spousal- and child-support obligations to each other. M. (plaintiff), a woman, had been in a same-sex cohabitating relationship with another woman, H. (defendant), for nearly a decade. After M. and H. broke up, M. brought suit against H. and claimed that the support law violated the Charter of Canada’s guarantee of equal protection by excluding same-sex couples from its provisions.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Cory, Iacobucci, J.J.)
Concurrence (Bastarache, J.)
Dissent (Gonthier, J.)
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