Bill C-373
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SUMMARY |
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This enactment amends the Federal-Provincial Fiscal
Arrangements Act and provides that the Governor in Council must order
a reduction in the cash contribution by the federal government to a
province under the Canada Health and Social Transfer where the
Supreme Court has declared, during the preceding year, that one or
more provincial laws are unconstitutional on the grounds that they
infringe the rights and freedoms guaranteed to the French linguistic
minority of that province by subsection 16(2), section 16.1, subsections
17(2) or 18(2), section 19, subsection 20(2) or section 23 of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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The enactment also provides that the Governor in Council shall
direct that an amount equal to the reduction in the cash contribution be
paid to institutions or agencies in the province that, in the opinion of the
Minister of Human Resources Development, are dedicated to the
protection or promotion of the use of French in the province or will be
able to offer social programs in French to all or part of the French
linguistic minority of the province.
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