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The impact on the nation’s governance, finances and now its Constitution are subordinate considerations.
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Torontonians enjoying a sunny Sunday afternoon while maintaining social distancing via social circle painted on the artificial lawn at Canada Square near the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto on May 16, 2021.
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The Victoria Day long weekend could mark the beginning of Ontario’s return to normal as COVID-19 cases fall, and the number of Ontarians with at least one dose of vaccine surges.
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OTTAWA – Can Quebec unilaterally rewrite certain sections of the Constitution to assert that the province is a “nation” and set French as its only official language? Why would Premier François Legault even want to do that? And what does that mean for other provinces? Or even the English speaking minority in Quebec?
Those are just some of the questions swirling across Canada days after Legault’s government introduced Bill 96, a sweeping language law reform that includes adding two new subsections to Section 90 of the Constitution proclaiming Quebec a “nation” and “affirm that the only official language of Québec is French.”