Senate committee reviews Nunavut's new language law (fwd link)

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Senate committee reviews Nunavut's new language law

Monday, June 8, 2009 | 11:12 AM CT
CBC News
Nunavut, North America

A Senate committee considering Nunavut's new Official Languages Act says it
hopes to vote on approving the legislation by the end of this week.

The territorial act became stalled in the Senate last week, a day after it
passed without dissent in the House of Commons.

The Senate's move frustrated Nunavut Conservative MP Leona Aglukkaq, who tabled
the legislation in the House on June 1.

But Quebec Liberal Senator Serge Joyal, who referred the act to the Senate's
standing committee on legal and constitutional affairs on June 2, said senators
want clarification on how it would be implemented.

Joyal said some senators are concerned about the act's implications for
francophones and speakers of other aboriginal languages.

"We are as much concerned for the other aboriginal languages, to help them to
have the tools and the books and teaching materials needed to promote the use
of aboriginal language by aboriginal people," Joyal told CBC News.

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