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Association canadienne-française de l’Ontario v. Attorney General of Quebec et al.

[1982] 2 SCR 789 Court SCC Decision date 1982-02-09 Docket 16910 English

PartiesThe Association canadienne-française de l’Ontario Applicant·The Attorney General of Quebec Respondents·The Attorney General of Canada Respondents

Counsel (6)
Emile Colas, Q.C., for the applicant.
Lucien Bouchard, for the respondent the Attorney General of Quebec.
Michel Robert and Raynold Langlois, for the respondent the Attorney General of Canada.
Solicitors for the applicant: De Grandpré, Colas, Deschênes, Godin, Paquette, Lasnier & Alary, Montreal.
Solicitors for the respondent the Attorney General of Quebec: Jean-K. Samson, Lucien Bouchard and Paul-Arthur Gendreau, Montreal.
Solicitors for the respondent the Attorney General of Canada: Michel Robert and Raynold Langlois, Montreal.

Judges Beetz, Jean; Chouinard, Julien; Lamer, Antonio

Decision 2–1 Majority (2) · Judgment of the Court — BEETZ J. (1)

On appeal from Quebec

Subjects Appeal

Contents

Majority

English version of the judgment of the Court delivered by

Judgment of the Court — BEETZ J.

BEETZ J.—The applicant seeks leave to appeal from a decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal dated January 5, 1982, which dismissed its application to intervene in a reference ordered by an Order in Council of the Government of Quebec, dated December 9, 1981 and numbered 3367-81.
HAVING REGARD TO s. 1 of An Act respecting a reference to the Court of Appeal, 1981 (Que.), c. 17;
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HAVING REGARD TO s. 37 of the Supreme Court Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. S-19;
We are all of the view that the decision of the Court of Appeal is not subject to appeal.
The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.
Application dismissed with costs.
Solicitors for the applicant: De Grandpré, Colas, Deschênes, Godin, Paquette, Lasnier & Alary, Montreal.
Solicitors for the respondent the Attorney General of Quebec: Jean-K. Samson, Lucien Bouchard and Paul-Arthur Gendreau, Montreal.
Solicitors for the respondent the Attorney General of Canada: Michel Robert and Raynold Langlois, Montreal.
Ed. Note: Leave to intervene in the Supreme Court granted by Dickson, Beetz and Lamer JJ. on April 4, 1982.

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