Advisory Committee on Access to Justice
in Both Official Languages

In addition to access to justice, the Advisory Committee on Access to Justice in Both Official Languages encompasses all Department initiatives to help enhance the vitality and development of official language minority communities.

Role

• To act as a liaison between the legal representatives of official language minority communities, spokespersons for these communities, and the Department of Justice of Canada;
• To help the Department of Justice to identify and take into account issues that particularly affect official language minority communities;
• To help the Department to make known the considerations that guide its actions in this area;
• To encourage the dialogue between the legal community, the official language minority communities as well as the governmental organizations represented on the Sub-Committee;
• To develop strategies to educate official language minority communities on their rights;
• To devise new tools to improve access to justice in both official languages;
• To identify partners who can best help implement the proposed strategies and tools.

Members

• Department of Justice Canada
  • Policy Sector
  • Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support Fund
  • Representatives of various relevant programs
    
    
• Fédération des associations de juristes d'expression française de common law (FAJEF)
• Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada (FCFA)
• Quebec Community Groups Network
• French-speaking jurists associations
• Jurilinguistic centres
  • Centre de traduction et de terminologie juridiques (Université de Moncton)
  • Centre for Translation and Legal Documentation (University of Ottawa)
  • Institut Joseph-Dubuc (Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface)
  • Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law (McGill University)
    
    
• The faculties and departments of law of the universities of Moncton, Ottawa, McGill and Laurentian
• Various federal bodies acting as observers
• Representation from the Intergovernmental Network on the Canadian Francophonie
• Representation from Quebec's English-speaking legal community

Contact

Mathieu Langlois
Legal Counsel
Justice in Official Languages