MONTREAL — A Quebec civil liberties group says it intends to push forward with legal action after the Supreme Court of Canada responded to its translation demand by simply removing thousands of unilingual judgments from its website.
Droits collectifs Québec had gone to Federal Court this month alleging the high court's registrar — the court's administrative body — was not respecting the Official Languages Act.
On Friday, the registrar announced it was removing all pre-1970 judgments from the Supreme Court website, directing people to other online databases if they wished to consult them. Droits collectifs Québec says the registrar's decision to remove the rulings doesn't resolve the issues it raised, so it will continue to seek a Federal Court ruling.
He said the failure to translate the judgments amounted to an offence under the act, and he gave the high court 18 months to correct the situation.
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