Supreme Court and Minority Language

minority language: The big question is who has the right to control admissions to francophone schools. , according to CBC. Section 23 of the Charter of Rights of Freedoms guarantees Canadians the right to education in a minority language, whether English or French, but extends that right only to the children or grandchildren of those who were educated in French or whose first language is French. The Yukon government and the territory francophone school board will be at the Supreme Court Wednesday to argue a case that could decide who has the right to control admissions to francophone schools outside Quebec . "It does raise important issues across Canada," says Max Faille, counsel for the Yukon government, "and this issue that we as a country have been grappling with for generations, really, of minority language education. It an area of the law that is constantly evolving as a result of the natural tensions that exist and that have always existed." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.