About Freedoms Advocate
Mission
To be an ethical charity devoted to representing and defending against government authorities who would threaten the liberty and constitutional freedoms of Canadians. We support and defend faith, family, and freedom.
Values
We value freedom, integrity, faith, freedom of religion and belief, thought and expression, association and assembly, a free press, democracy, life, liberty, security, and strong families.
Randy Crosson
With more than 38 years of executive leadership, Randy Crosson has built a career guiding both for-profit and non-profit organizations through growth, innovation, and change. He currently serves as Executive Director of Freedoms Advocate, a charity that funds Constitutional and Human Rights cases, where he leads case review, national fundraising initiatives, donor partnerships, strategic planning, and volunteer engagement across Canada.
Previously, he spent over a decade as Director of Operation Christmas Child at Samaritan’s Purse Canada, overseeing large-scale domestic and international operations, volunteer systems, marketing, and strategic integration with the organization’s U.S. headquarters. His earlier roles include senior leadership positions in corporate operations, business development, and consulting, spanning industries such as construction, wellness technology, energy, and manufacturing.
Throughout his career, he has been recognized for his strengths in team building, financial management, technology integration, and organizational strategy. Beyond the boardroom, he has invested deeply in community service, contributing to initiatives addressing poverty, youth at risk, and senior care, while also helping lead significant fundraising projects.
Married to his wife Sylvia, Randy values family, community, and creativity. His personal interests include rebuilding classic cars, sculpture, archery, outdoor pursuits, and global travel.
Carol Crosson
Founder of Freedoms Advocate and Crosson Constitutional Law
Debate is what started Carol thinking that law was where she wanted/needed to go.
While homeschooling their 3 beautiful daughters, Carol made music and debate competitions required learning. Carol received an award for her efforts and long list of achievements from the debate association in Saskatchewan.
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Carol completed nearly 50 constitutional and human rights cases and won 93% of them.
During the 11 years prior to her passing, Carol was constantly taking on new cases and fighting for people who were having their rights and freedoms trampled on.
The fear and anxiety these people experienced were a constant struggle for Carol as she grew to deeply care for each and every one of them.
She threw herself into each case and dug deep into the law to form her arguments and find favourable precedents.
As time went by, she began to use her own cases as precedents.
Carol entered law school in her 40s and was struggling with Lyme disease at the time.
As she was completing her degree, she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She was told she would likely not survive as the type of cancer she had grew very rapidly. What was walnut size when they found it, grew to the size of a cantaloupe in only 6 weeks. Like everything else in her life Carol would not give up without a fight. She found a clinic with a 37% survival rate and there began an 11-year battle with cancer.
All through those years Carol was growing and expanding her law practice and gaining a deep understanding of constitutional law and how the courts handled them. There were times she would be getting fractionated chemotherapy in the morning at the clinic in the US and that afternoon be on a link back to a court in Canada fighting for her clients.
Her clients all knew she cared for them. What they didn’t see was the sleepless nights where she would be weeping for them. She saw how fear was driven into the soul of her clients by government officials going after them and taking their constitutional rights from them on a whim or from hatred.
Carol was an exceptional lawyer. One friend said she did more in 10 years than most lawyers do in 30. She poured herself into her work and gave herself to her clients. She became their biggest encourager, lifting them up and showing them just how strong they were and how much of a difference they were making in our land. Some said they always felt better after talking to Carol, prouder, stronger, and eager to face the fight.
And their courage to face their own fears and stand for what was right and true encouraged Carol and made her even more up for the fight. Carol had a 93% success rate for her Charter and Human Rights cases showing just how strong her commitment was to her clients and their Charter Rights and Freedoms.
All she did for her clients she did for everyone she knew. She never let anyone think they were not up for the task. She always saw each person as so much more than they could ever imagine.
And all this she did while dealing with the daily pain caused by the cancer treatments and infections. She attended court hearings on the verge of fainting. She arranged media interviews so that she would only be dealing with minimal pain.
At Carol’s Alberta Bar Call Ceremony, this passage from Isaiah 59 was read:
14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) stands far off; for truth has fallen in the street (the city’s forum), and uprightness cannot enter [the courts of justice].
15 Yes, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. And He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor [no one to intervene on behalf of truth and right];
At the heart of Carol Crosson was a strong belief in fighting for those who are being oppressed. Good people, or as she put it ‘People of Principle’, who had the courage to stand for truth and what is right. She would tell her clients that they were heroes.
Carol has always been, is now, and forever will be my Hero!
Randy Crosson
Executive Director
Freedoms Advocate
What We Do
Freedoms Advocate is an ethical, registered charitable organization based in Alberta, Canada. We are not affiliated with any other groups or organizations. Freedoms Advocate defends faith, family, and freedom. We represent people with strong values and beliefs, who despite their own fears, choose to stand up against government to protect the rights and freedoms of all Canadians.
We provide financial support to fund select legal cases at all levels of government, across all of Canada, on issues of fundamental importance to the liberty and constitutional rights of Canadians.
We accept no government funding for our vital work. Instead, we accept donations from concerned Canadians and those from other countries that see what is happening in our land and want to support our work and efforts to maintain and protect the liberty and constitutional freedoms of Canadians. who want to support our work and efforts to maintain and protect the liberty and constitutional freedoms of Canadians.
We advance our mandate by promoting public awareness, and provide education and legal support on issues of fundamental importance to the constitutional rights of Canadians.
We fight to win.
What We Cannot Do
We do not take on situations involving private individuals and businesses that are not subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We are unable to provide support for cases that involve family law matters, landlord-tenant disputes, consumer disputes, employee relations, divorce, wills and estates. We also do not assist with criminal matters unless the case arises out of the exercise of constitutional rights such as protest, freedom of assembly, free speech, freedom of religion, or civil rights.
An Advocate For You
Opinions
If it is important to you that individuals have the right to freedom of expression so they can share their opinions openly, the Freedoms Advocate is for you.
Beliefs
If it is important to you that individuals have the right to freedom of religion, so they can share and protect their beliefs, the Freedoms Advocate is for you.
Rights
If it is important to you that individuals are not punished in workplaces or on college campuses because they share “incorrect” beliefs or opinions, the Freedoms Advocate is for you.
Freedoms
If it is important to you that government is prohibited from compelling your speech, telling you what you can and cannot say, the Freedoms Advocate is for you.