Overview of the Commissioner’s Interventions in the Courts (2018–2025)
Building the foundation of language rights
Language of work in federal institutions
- Dionne case (Canada v Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions)
Access to the courts in the official language of your choice
- Tayo Tompouba case
- Bessette v British Columbia
- Mazraani v Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc.
Minority language education
- Commission scolaire francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest v Northwest Territories
- Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique v British Columbia
Development and vitality of official language minority communities
- Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique v Employment and Social Development Canada
Communications with the public and provision of services
- Thibodeau v St. John’s International Airport Authority
- Thibodeau v Greater Toronto Airports Authority
- Thibodeau v Halifax International Airport Authority
- Thibodeau v Air Canada
Each court decision has enriched our jurisprudence, which is the very foundation on which Canadians can rely to assert their language rights, whether in terms of access to justice, of education or even of the vitality of official language minority communities.