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Forget v Quebec (AG), [1988] 2 SCR 90 Ford v Quebec (AG) , [1988] 2 SCR 712 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision in which the Court struck down part of the Charter of the French Language , commonly known as " Bill 101 ". [ 2 ]
The Charter of the French Language (French: Charte de la langue française, pronounced [ʃaʁt də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]), also known as Bill 101 (French: Loi 101, pronounced [lwa sɑ̃ œ̃]), is a law in the Canadian province of Quebec defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of the provincial government.
With the Act to amend the Charter of the French language, S.Q. 1988, c. 54 (also known as Bill 178), the National Assembly (under a Quebec Liberal government) made use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution and amended the Charter by allowing English provided that the letters are no larger than half the size of the French.
Over 40 years ago, in 1977, Bill 101, the Charter of the French Language in Quebec, was enacted by the Quebec government. [99] Bill 101 or the Charter of the French Language is a law enacted in 1977 in the province of Quebec, Canada, with the primary purpose of strengthening the use of French as the official and predominant language in the ...
On October 22, 2009, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on the constitutionality of the Charter amendment in Bill 104. The decision, Nguyen v. Quebec, ordered the Quebec government to amend this section so that attendance in a non-subsidized English school would not automatically disqualify a student from attending a subsidized school. [33]
Quebec (AG) v Blaikie (No 1), [1979] 2 S.C.R. 1016 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on language rights in the Constitution Act, 1867.The Court held that the sections of Quebec's Charter of the French Language (better-known at the time as "Bill 101"), which required that provincial laws be enacted in French only, violated section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867.
The Unity Party (in French, Parti unité) was a political party in Quebec, Canada.. The party was formed as a reaction to then-Premier Robert Bourassa invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution to override a Supreme Court ruling overturning parts of the Charter of the French Language (commonly known as "Bill 101").
Albert is a vocal critic of Quebec's Charter of the French Language (otherwise known as Bill 101) and of Quebec nationalism in general. [3] He argues that the Charter of the French Language violates the rights of Quebec anglophones, and he blames nationalist policies pursued by the Quebec government since 1962 for prompting anglophones to leave the province.