Subject: Law
Credit units: 3
College: Law
Department: Law (Dean's Office)

This course will examine language rights in Canada. The Official Languages of Canada sections (16-22) and the Minority Language Educational Rights section (23) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms will be examined. The course will also examine manifestations of language policy at the federal and provincial levels, including its impact on courts and court cases, education and the provision of services generally. Examples of language regulation including Quebec’s official language legislation and its regulation of commercial signs, and New Brunswick’s position, as Canada’s only bilingual province, will be examined.

Restriction(s): Students must have completed first-year Law.

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