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The end approaches for Chile s military-era constitution
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1of6FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2019 file photo, an anti-government demonstrator costumed as late military dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet salutes in front of a burning street barricade placed by protesters demanding a new constitution in Santiago, Chile. Chileans will elect an assembly on April 11, 2021, tasked with writing fresh governing principles and putting them to a national vote in the first half of 2022 to replace the much-amended relic of military rule, the 1980 constitution.Esteban Felix/APShow MoreShow Less
2of6FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2019 file photo, Chile s President Sebastian Pinera leaves at the end of a ceremony introducing his reshuffled Cabinet, at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. Two-term President Pinera has called to elect an assembly on April 11, 2021, for a new constitution, even though he cannot run in a g
It’s the most significant proposal on the status of French and English in Canada since the 1982 enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which entrenched the main provisions of the 1969 Official Languages Act in the Canadian Constitution. The last major reform to the act was in 1988.
Both the charter and the act proclaim: “English and French are the official languages of Canada and have equality of status and equal rights … in all institutions of the Parliament and government.”
The new policy,
English and French: Towards a Substantive Equality of Official Languages in Canada is based on the recognition that French and English are not on the same footing in Canada and that the federal government is constitutionally obliged to do more to protect French from coast to coast.