New Brunswick passes a new Official Languages Act

Decades

1860 – 1869
1870 – 1879
1880 – 1889
1890 – 1899
1900 – 1909
1910 – 1919
1920 – 1929
1930 – 1939
1940 – 1949
1950 – 1959
1960 – 1969
1970 – 1979
1980 – 1989
1990 – 1999
2000 – 2009
2010 – 2019
2020 – 2023

2002

The new Act is a legislative milestone for the Government of New Brunswick.

The new Act was passed in response to the need to update the 1969 Act and to take major court decisions into account, particularly the Charlebois case.

The new Act also:

imposed language obligations on certain municipalities;
created an Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick;
gave citizens the right to receive health care services in both official languages; and
provided a mechanism for reviewing the Act every 10 years.