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On June 20, 2023, Bill C-13 - An Act to amend the Official Languages Act, to enact the Use of French in Federally Regulated Private Businesses Act and to make related amendments to other Acts received Royal Assent.
Close collaboration is exercised to ensure governance and whole-of-government coordination of the implementation of the Official Languages Act (the Act) between Canadian Heritage and Treasury Board (TB). The Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada’s Official Languages, which received royal accent on June 20, 2023, provides for significant adjustments that include, among other things, to entrust the role of government-wide coordination of the Act and its good governance to the President of TB, while the Minister of Canadian Heritage (or the designated Minister responsible for Official Languages) leads the development and implementation of a government-wide official languages strategy, in consultation with the TB President.
On June 20, 2023, Bill C-13 - An Act to amend the Official Languages Act, to enact the Use of French in Federally Regulated Private Businesses Act and to make related amendments to other Acts received Royal Assent. The modernized Act recognizes the diversity of provincial and territorial linguistic regimes that contribute to progress toward equality of status and use of English and French, including Quebec's Charter of the French Language.
Statistics Canada released, in August 2022, data on official languages from the 2021 Census of Canada.
In a press release issued on Friday, June 30, 2023, the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities announced that it would not fund the University of Sudbury, stating that "the University of Sudbury's proposal, including the request for funding to create a stand-alone French-language university, does not reflect current demand or enrolment trends."
On November 28, 2022, the Attorney General of Canada filed a factum with the Supreme Court of Canada in Commission scolaire francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest v. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment of the Northwest Territories.
On March 31, 2023, the Conseil scolaire francophone provincial de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador wrote to the Federal Court to provide an update on the status of the discussions between the parties and to inform the Court that the talks had broken down and that the case against the Department of Canadian Heritage had been reopened.
On June 15, 2023, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal considered the federal government's appointment of a unilingual English-speaking Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. A decision is expected at a later date.