Section 17 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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Section 17 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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Section 17 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is one of the provisions of the Charter that addresses rights relating to Canada's two official languages, English and French. While the section 17 right to use either language within the Parliament of Canada repeats a right already anchored in section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867, section 17 also guarantees the right to use both languages in the legislature of New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province under section 16 of
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Constitutional right to use English or French in Parliament
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_17_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
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2023-10-25T00:50:32Z
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