The Parti Québécois is urging the Quebec government to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to limit access to private English schools after the Supreme Court quashed part of the province’s language legislation. Bill 104 had closed a loophole allowing children not eligible for the English-language public school system to gain access by first spending time in a private English school. But last month, the loophole was reopened when the country’s highest court ordered Quebec to review and rewrite the law within a year and to review the parents' requests to send their children to English-language schools.
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UQAUSIVUT ATURLAVUT Moving forward to implement our dream: Protecting and Promoting the Inuit La
nguageThe new Official Languages Act was approved by the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in June 2008. As required by the Nunavut Act, it must receive approval from the Canadian Parliament before it can be brought into force. Once that happens, Inuit in Nunavut will finally have a legal statement of their inherent right to use the Inuit Language in full equality with English and French. This status exceeds any other statutory protection now in place for Inuit or aboriginal people in Canada.
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