Bilingualism in the Federal Courts /

Supreme Court Act section 133 stipulates principle, “to advance the Section 530.01 gives the Rules of the Supreme that the Acts of the equality of status or use accused the right to obtain Court of Canada Parliament of Canada of English and French.” from the prosecutor a Federal Courts Act and the legislature of Section 19 establishes translation of the portions of Quebec must be Federal Courts Ru [...] The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada is courts of appeal in the responsible for the administration of the provinces and territories. [...] Year after year, stakeholders have called for the federal government to appoint a sufficient number of bilingual judges, especially to courts administered by the provinces.9 3.3 THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD IN THE LANGUAGE OF ONE’S CHOICE Does the right to use the official language of one’s choice mean that one has the right to be understood in that language without the use of an interprete [...] Finally, superior court judges must be better aware of the language rights of those who appear before the courts in order to ensure substantive equality in access to justice in both official languages.29 3.6 THE EQUALITY OF THE TWO OFFICIAL LANGUAGES In the Beaulac case, the Supreme Court of Canada stated that the purpose of sections 530 and 530.1 of the Criminal Code is to: provide equal access t [...] In the DesRochers case, the Supreme Court stated, “Substantive equality, as opposed to formal equality, is to be the norm, and the exercise of language rights is not to be considered a request for accommodation.”33 The principle of the equality of the two official languages that is recognized in Canadian case law provides for the equal treatment of the two language communities in Canada.