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The province is one of only two bilingual provinces in Canada. New Brunswick has been officially bilingual in English and French since the passing of the New Brunswick Official Languages Act (1969). This was complemented by An Act Recognizing the Equality of the Two Official Linguistic Communities in New Brunswick in 1981.
Official bilingualism" (French: bilinguisme officiel) is the term used in Canada to collectively describe the policies, constitutional provisions, and laws that ensure legal equality of English and French in the Parliament and courts of Canada, protect the linguistic rights of English- and French-speaking minorities in different provinces, and ...
New Brunswick: English and French. New Brunswick has been officially bilingual since the 1960s. The province's officially bilingual status has been entrenched in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms since 1982. Nova Scotia: Mi'kmawi'simk is considered the province's official "first language."
In Canada English and French have special legal status over other languages in Canada's courts, parliament and administration. [4] At the provincial level, New Brunswick is the only official bilingual province, while Quebec is the only province where French is the sole official language, and the only officially monolingual province.
The Official Languages Act is a law enacted by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick which makes New Brunswick the only officially bilingual province of Canada.This law prescribes that English and French are the two official languages of New Brunswick and have equal status in all provincial government institutions.
A bilingual (English and French) stop sign on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.An example of bilingualism at the federal government level. Section 16 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the first of several sections of the Constitution dealing with Canada's two official languages, English and French.
Section 19 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is one of the provisions of the Constitution of Canada that addresses rights relating to Canada's two official languages, English and French. Like section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867 , section 19 allows anyone to speak English or French in federal courts .
Moncton (City): The New Brunswick Court of Appeal rules that all municipal laws must be enacted in both official languages in all municipalities in which there is a minority-language population of 20% or more (all such municipalities having been, under the province's language law, designated bilingual). [26] The province complies with the ...