Official Languages committee  I will just add that the Commissioner will submit, at the same time as the annual report, in May, a summary report on how he has performed his role before the courts during his term. The report will also talk about the way his predecessors performed that role. Some statistics wil

Official Languages committee  Certainly. Since taking office, the Commissioner has intervened in 23 court cases, 9 of which were before the Supreme Court of Canada. He often intervenes in court remedies initiated by complainants. Those remedies are initiated under our act. He also intervenes in proceeding u

Justice committee  I think that the association of French-Speaking jurists of Ontario issued a statement at the time Justice Bastarache's successor was being appointed. But it also expressed the need for there to be bilingual justices on the Supreme Court. The Canadian Bar Association also issued a

Justice committee  Very briefly, yes, indeed there was a decision in the Société des Acadiens case. That decision still stands on the interpretation of the law. What has changed since then is the manner of interpretation that the court applies. The court has interpreted the importance of language

Official Languages committee  We had some discussions, and indeed certain questions remain perhaps problematical from a constitutional standpoint. The broader issues that we focused on concern more the bill's impact on the Official Languages Act, which, remember, is a quasi-constitutional act that also subjec