<font><font face="georgia,serif">Ottawa braces for possible native language lawsuit<br> <br>BY RANDY BOSWELL, POSTMEDIA NEWS FEBRUARY 17, 2012<br>Canada<br><br>The Canadian government is braced for a possible lawsuit aimed at forcing it to give "certain aboriginal languages" the same official status as English and French, according to an access-to-information document obtained by Postmedia News.<br>
<br>The July 2010 briefing note to Heritage Minister James Moore, who also oversees the country's Official Languages Act, indicates that "the Assembly of First Nations is considering taking the government of Canada to court" to enshrine an unspecified number of indigenous languages as "official" in Canadian law.<br>
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