Danielle Smith fordert eine Lockerung der Zweisprachigkeitsanforderungen für Richter || Danielle Smith fordert eine Lockerung der Zweisprachigkeitsanforderungen für Richter
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As a British Columbian, I could see the benefit of having other language requirements such as mandarin.
That being said, although I don’t speak French myself, it is an official language of Canada and federal Supreme Court judges should speak both.
The SCC has been itself pushing for functional bilingualism so if it ever made its way to the SCC, they are not going to look kindly on any relaxation.
At the same time there a lot of legal talent that could be of great benefit to be SCC bench that is not considered because of the language requirement. Everytime there is an opening, particularly one of the Western seats, all kinds of new stories pop up about judges taking French classes to try and boost their chances. But invariably those ones are never the ones that get shortlisted or appointed. It basically means if you want to be an SCC judge, you better have parents who put you into immersion and you’re fairly committed by your teenage years.
And at the end of the day, while there is a language divide, federal cases out of Quebec and from ROC into Quebec are applied. And it’s up to counsel, even if they are not bilingual, to figure it out as needed. So courts and counsel who are not bilingual are expected to operate to some degree across both languages.
Finally, one must also consider for those accused who do not operate at all within one of the officiall languages, their ability to communicate with counsel and understand the proceedings are accommodated with interpreters. If that is good enough, one wonders why the court cannot reply on such as well. And if not so, the SCC also does not always sit together, so it’s not actually required for all justices to be bilingual
„Federal Judges call on Danielle Smith to go back to her lane and stay there.“
this will just more ammunition to ‚prove‘ to the separatists how Canada picks on Alberta to help Quebec.
I mean in provinces with a high % of French speakers I could see the reason why, but out West it would be more useful if they spoke Chinese or Punjabi. As long as you speak English in BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Sask, I don’t see a reason you should be required to speak French to be a judge. Honestly my support for 100% bilingualism died when Quebec betrayed all Canadians and stabbed us in the back by banning English right after we instituted bilingualism requirements across the nation.
Despite being a territory ceded to Britain by France, Quebec has taken every inch of independence we’ve given them out of generosity and used it to stab us in the back. Canada needs to bring the boot down on this secessionist traitorous nonsense.
*• During its presentation in the National Assembly, the Minister responsible for the French language, Simon Jolin-Barrette, stated that the purpose of this Bill 96 „is to affirm that the only official language of Quebec is French“ and that „French is the common language of the Quebec nation“.*
[*https://search.open.canada.ca/qpnotes/record/pch,PCH-2022-QP-00181*](https://search.open.canada.ca/qpnotes/record/pch,PCH-2022-QP-00181)