Unconstitutional to appoint monolingual Canadian official

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian Supreme Court found that a lower court should not have declared the appointment of a monolingual, anglophone Lieutenant Governor in New Brunswick constitutional. “The appointment of a unilingual English-speaking person has the effect of relegating the official language in which that person is not proficient to a secondary status and of undermining, through the symbolic effect of the appointment itself, the rights of the province’s Francophones.” However, the adequa...