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Date: n.d.
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Citation: [Department of Justice?], Minority Language Education Rights, Alternate Draft (n.d.)
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Minority Language Education Rights

Alternate Draft

23. (1) Citizens of Canada

(a) whose first language learned and still understood is that of the English or French linguistic minority population of the province in which they reside, or

(b) who have received their primary school instruction anywhere in Canada in the language, whether English or French, of the linguistic minority population of the province in which they reside have a right to have their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in that language in that province.

(2) Citizens of Canada of whom one child has received primary or secondary school instruction in English or French in Canada, have the right to have all their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the same language.

(3) The rights of citizens of Canada under this section to have their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the language of the English or French linguistic minority population of a province applies [only] where the citizens reside in an area of the province in which the number of children of citizens who have such a right is sufficient to warrant the provision out of public funds of minority language instruction in that area.