Context and Challenges
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) defends constitutional rights and freedoms in Canada. It needed to understand the place of freedom and liberty in the Canadian debate, and how these freedoms evolve in the legal system.
Our Role
Since 2025, Research for Purpose has produced quarterly and yearly reports for the CCF. The objective is to better understand and measure the evolution of narratives related to freedom and liberty within Canadian media platforms, social media user interactions, and publicly accessible legislative and legal documents on Canadian government websites.
We track a set of freedom rights and issues selected by the CCF, together with the CCF’s own frames, its specific narratives on freedom and rights. Media and social media content is collected with YouScan, and court cases are monitored through CanLII. Topics and categories are tagged with our AI toolbox, trained for each project. The reports also measure the CCF’s visibility in generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, and follow court cases related to Section 2 (a), (b) and (c) of the Canadian Charter.
Results
Between April and June 2026, 820 media articles adopted at least one CCF frame, which corresponds to 15.6% of online media coverage on key freedom rights. In generative AI answers to relevant questions, the CCF ranked second among the organisations mentioned.
The CCF uses the reports to generate ideas for more engaging content, identify opportunities to increase the visibility of its work and understand how litigation shapes the broader legal discourse.