{"id":19433,"date":"2023-10-27T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&p=19433"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:40:39","slug":"justice-mary-moreau-is-nominated-to-canadas-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/justice-mary-moreau-is-nominated-to-canadas-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Mary Moreau is nominated to Canada\u2019s Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was pleased to hear that franco-albertaine judge Mary Moreau has been nominated to fill a vacancy in Canada\u2019s Supreme Court. If her appointment is approved, Moreau will be the first francophone from Western Canada in the position.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreau is known for her sensitivity to respecting the language rights of French-speaking citizens and has been a strong advocate for equal access to justice in both of Canada’s Official Languages. She was the trial judge in <\/span>F\u00e9d\u00e9ration franco-t\u00e9noise v. Canada (AG)<\/span><\/i><\/a>, which concerned the nature and scope of the language obligations of the government of the Northwest Territories and the federal government. She also acted as a lawyer in <\/span>R v. Paquette<\/span><\/i><\/a>,<\/span><\/i> a case where the accused applied for a trial by a judge and jury in French in Edmonton but was refused (and later accepted), and she acted for the appellants in <\/span>Mah\u00e9 v. Alberta<\/span><\/i><\/a>. This case<\/span><\/i> established that <\/span>Section 23 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/span><\/a> requires that parents of the official language minority in each province have the right to either be represented on their local school board or to have a school board that operates in their language, to protect the education rights of their children. Moreau also helped to create the <\/span>Association des juristes d’expression fran\u00e7aise de l’Alberta<\/span><\/i><\/a>, which is dedicated to promoting French language rights in the province.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreau <\/span>will participate<\/span><\/a> in a question and answer session before members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, and a member of the Green Party of Canada on November 2nd, and then a decision about her nomination will be made by the Prime Minister and Cabinet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image: Courtesy of the Court of Queen’s Bench<\/em>
\nCatherine Fisher, blogger<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19436,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[59],"class_list":["post-19433","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/19433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=19433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}