Final Report of the French Constitutional Drafting Committee responsible for providing the Minister of Justice of Canada with a draft official French version of certain constitution enactments

Notice to the reader: This document represents the recommendation of the Committee constituted under s. 55 of the Constitution Act, 1982 and has never been superseded by any other report under that section. Section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides that "a French version of the portions of the Constitution of Canada referred to in the schedule [to that Act] shall be prepared by the Minister of Justice of Canada as expeditiously as possible". The French Constitutional Drafting Committee was set up in 1984 with a mandate to assist the Minister in that task. The Committee has endeavoured to ensure the greatest possible consistency in the documents without changing the substance of the laws contained in them. Each word or expression had to be considered not only in its immediate context but also with respect to constitutional law in its entirety. These considerations prompted the Committee to make certain modifications to its interim report*, which it had drafted before its review of the enactments was complete. In the Committee's opinion, the French version of the Constitution of Canada should, to the greatest possible extent, reflect Canadian constitutional law at all…

Publisher

Department of Justice Canada

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2023-07-25