Attorney General of Quebec v. Blaikie (No. 1)
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Quebec (Attorney General) v. Blaikie, [1979] 2 S.C.R. 1016 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on language rights in the Constitution Act, 1867. The Court held that certain provisions in Quebec's Charter of the French Language requiring that all provincial laws to be enacted in French only violated section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867. The Court found that section 133, which required that all Acts be printed and published in both French and English, applied to all legislation and regulations.
Aftermath
Upon receiving the judgment the government of Quebec applied for a rehearing in order to get clarification on whether there was any exemptions from section 133. Two years later the Court passed down the decision of Quebec (Attorney General) v. Blaikie (No. 2) (1981) to clarify.See also
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