Notes

• Date: 22 August 2023
• Author: Michel Bastarache

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Notes

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 Manitoba Act, - Enactment No  (UK),  Victoria, c , reprinted in RSC

, Appendix II, No .

 Regulation  was a regulation of the Government of Ontario limiting

instruction in French-language Catholic separate schools; it was adopted in

July .

 Louis Mailloux was killed in a rebellion in Caraquet, New Brunswick, fol-

lowing the adoption of the Common Schools Act, , which forced Catholics

to pay double taxes in order to allow their schools to continue to provide

French-language education.

 R v Mercure , []  SCR ,  DLR (th)  (SCC). Father Mercure was

stopped for speeding and asked for a trial in French. He argued that s  of

the North-west Territories Act provided that all territorial laws must be adopted

in French and English and that the provision applied to Saskatchewan

further to s  of the Saskatchewan Act. e Supreme Court agreed but deter-

mined that the provision was not protected by the Constitution and could

be repealed by the provincial legislature.

 Schedule B to the Canada Act  (UK), , c .

 Part I of the Constitution Act, , being Schedule B to the Canada Act 

(UK), , c .

 e Ocial Languages of New Brunswick, SNB , c .

 RSNB , c .

 RSC , c  (th Supp).