<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-articleHeadline" style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:30.4px;line-height:1.2;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Flama-Medium,arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Feds launch review of official-languages law 50 years after its introduction</h1><div class="gmail-image gmail-top gmail-imgTop" style="margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif"><img title="Melanie Joly" height="348" alt="Melanie Joly" width="620" src="https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.4331079.1552320555!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border-width:0px 0px 3px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:double;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-color:initial;outline:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline">Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie Minister Melanie Joly speaks during an event in Ottawa, Monday March 11, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld</p></div><div class="gmail-tools gmail-clearfix" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5em;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-color:initial;outline:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-gigya-space" id="gmail-componentDiv_gig_containerParent" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline"><span id="gmail-componentDiv" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;float:left"><div class="gmail-gig-bar-container gmail-gig-share-bar-container" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(77,77,77);background:none"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none"><td style="padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:middle;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;font-family:arial;background:none;white-space:nowrap;zoom:1"><div class="gmail-gig-button-container gmail-gig-button-container-count-right gmail-gig-button-container-facebook gmail-gig-button-container-facebook-count-right gmail-gig-share-button-container gmail-gig-button-container-horizontal" style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px 5px 0px 0px;border-top:none;border-right:1px solid rgb(232,232,232);border-bottom:none;border-left:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:top;width:60px;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none;height:29px;display:inline-block"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none"><td class="gmail-gig-button-td" style="padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:middle;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;font-family:arial;background:none"><div class="gmail-gig-button gmail-gig-share-button gmail-gig-button-up gmail-gig-button-count-right" id="gmail-componentDiv-reaction0" title="" alt="" tabindex="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;float:none;border-radius:0px;background:none">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