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- R v Mercure was a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988, dealing with language rights in the province of Saskatchewan. The appellant demanded the right to a statutory provision in Saskatchewan governing a speeding ticket be expressed in French as well as the right to have a trial conducted in French. English and French are both considered official languages in Canada. Lower courts had denied him this right, so he sought appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. However, the appellant died before the Supreme Court could hear his appeal. The Court exercised its discretion to hear the appeal notwithstanding its mootness because the case not only raised an important legal issue but satisfied the other criteria for the hearing of a moot appeal, including the continued existence of a proper adversarial context. The Supreme Court ruled that language rights enjoyed an almost constitutional status and could only be repealed by a 'clear legislative pronouncement'. The Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan subsequently repealed official bilingualism. (en)
- L'arrêt La Reine c. Mercure, [1988] 1 R.C.S. 234, est une décision de justice canadienne rendue par la Cour suprême du Canada le 25 février 1988 concernant un citoyen fransaskois, , dont l'affaire judiciaire a mis en avant la question du bilinguisme des lois édictées par l'assemblée législative de la Saskatchewan, en vertu des lois édictées lors de la création des Territoires du Nord-Ouest et s'appliquant par la suite, à la province de la Saskatchewan lorsque celle-ci fut créée. (fr)
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- André Mercure v Attorney General for Saskatchewan (en)
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- Judgment for the Crown in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal (en)
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- Dickson CJC, Beetz, Lamer, Wilson and Le Dain JJ (en)
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- Saskatchewan Act, SC 1905, c 42, ss 14, 16 (en)
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- French language rights guaranteed by s 110 of The North-West Territories Act continued to apply in Saskatchewan (en)
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- L'arrêt La Reine c. Mercure, [1988] 1 R.C.S. 234, est une décision de justice canadienne rendue par la Cour suprême du Canada le 25 février 1988 concernant un citoyen fransaskois, , dont l'affaire judiciaire a mis en avant la question du bilinguisme des lois édictées par l'assemblée législative de la Saskatchewan, en vertu des lois édictées lors de la création des Territoires du Nord-Ouest et s'appliquant par la suite, à la province de la Saskatchewan lorsque celle-ci fut créée. (fr)
- R v Mercure was a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988, dealing with language rights in the province of Saskatchewan. The appellant demanded the right to a statutory provision in Saskatchewan governing a speeding ticket be expressed in French as well as the right to have a trial conducted in French. English and French are both considered official languages in Canada. (en)
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- R v Mercure (en)
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