Senate Reform: Issues and Impact on Canada's Linguistic Minorities
On Wednesday, September 12 at 12:30pm, Linguistic Rights 91丝瓜视频 will聽 host a panel on Senate reform and its impact on Canada's francophone linguistic minorities.
The panel will devote particular attention to the potential impact of Senate reform, as proposed in the federal Bill C-7, the Senate Reform Act.
Our panellists
- The Honorable St茅phane Dion, PC, MP, federal Member of Parliament for Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, and Liberal critic for democratic reform and official languages (Liberal Party of Canada)
- The Honorable Senator Serge Joyal, PC, senatorial division of Kennebec, Quebec (Liberal Party of Canada)
- Professor Louis Massicotte, Department of Political Science, Universit茅 Laval
For more information, please contact
Mlle Andr茅a Suurland (andrea.suurland [at] mail.mcgill.ca) or M. Lawrence David (lawrence.bisse [at] mail.mcgill.ca)
About Linguistic Rights 91丝瓜视频
Linguistic Rights 91丝瓜视频 is a Faculty of law student-operated working group whose primary aim is to promote, study, and advance the rights and freedoms of Canada's linguistic minority communities. The group's primary emphasis is on Francophone linguistic minorities outside the province of Quebec, with an attentive eye to issues such as access to justice, the enforcement of the federal Official Languages Act and of provincial French Services Acts, bilingualism requirements for certain positions, as well as emerging issues affecting Canada's Francophone linguistic minority communities.