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Article: Government of Canada Celebrates 40 Years of the Official Languages Act.
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- Marketwire Canada
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- September 8, 2009
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Sep 8, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, on behalf of the Government of Canada, brought together community groups, parliamentarians, and representatives of official-language communities to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the coming into force of Canada's first Official Languages Act (http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/O-3.01/index.html?noCookie).
"Our Government is proud to mark the 40th anniversary of the Official Languages Act, which gave English and French equal status not only in Parliament and before the courts, but also in the federal government for the first time ...