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13 Dec 1979

Constitutional law [1979] 2 SCR 1032

Attorney General of Manitoba v. Forest

Court: Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada held that Manitoba’s Official Language Act could not abrogate the language rights preserved by s. 23 of The Manitoba Act, 1870.

Manitoba act s.23
B.n.a. act s.92(1) amending power
Official language act (manitoba) 1890
Entrenchment of rights
Relation of federal statutes to provincial amendment
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