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Jones v New Brunswick (AG)

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In essence, the Supreme Court was ruling that "the language guarantees set forth in the Constitution represented a minimum protection and did not stop Parliament or the provincial legislatures from adopting more generous language regimes."
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The Official Languages Act was within the federal government's constitutional authority
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The Court upheld the constitutional validity of the
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