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Drawing the Line: The Impact of Readjusting the Electoral Boundaries on the Official Language Minority Communities

 

 

 

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June 2006

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

STUDY BACKGROUND

OBJECTIVES

LEGISLATIVE BASIS

METHODOLOGY

CONSTITUTION AND OPERATION OF COMMISSIONS

FINDINGS

  • Information about official languages given to the commissions
  • Access by commissions to demographic data about official language minority communities
  • Findings of our investigations into complaints against commissions
    • Acadie-Bathurst (New Brunswick)
    • Madawaska-Restigouche (New Brunswick)
    • Edmonton-St. Albert and Westlock-St. Paul (Alberta)
    • Northern Ontario
      • Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing (Ontario)
      • Timiskaming-Cochrane (Ontario)
      • Conclusion for Northern Ontario official language minority communities
  • Mechanisms used by the commissions to take official language minority communities into account
  • An Act that is silent about “community of interest”
  • Information from the commissions intended for the public
  • Difficulties in making changes to the commissions’ proposals
  • The need for more public hearings
  • Reports vary from commission to commission
  • The commissions and the Commissioner’s power of investigation

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX
Recommendations of the Commissioner of Official Languages