Article 20 of the Canadian Charter of the rights and freedoms

The Article 20 of the Canadian Charter of the rights and freedoms is one of the articles of the Charte of the rights of the Constitution of Canada which establishes rights relative to the two official languages of the Canada, the English and the French. Just as the article 16, article 20 is one of the rare articles under the heading Official languages of Canada which guarantees the right to the Bilinguisme in-outside Parlement, legislatures and courts. This makes rights broader than those authorized by the constitutional Loi of 1867 . The specific function of article 20 is to establish the right to receive in French or English of the services of the governments of Canada and the New Brunswick.

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20. (1) The public is entitled, in Canada, to employment of French or English to communicate with the seat or the central administration of the institutions of the Parliament or the government of Canada or to receive the services from them; it has the same right with regard to any other office of these institutions where, according to the case:

a) the employment of French or English is the subject of an important request;
b) the employment of French and English is justified by the vocation of the office.

(2) The public is entitled, in New Brunswick, to employment of French or English to communicate with any office of the institutions of the legislature or the government or to receive the services from them|Article 20 of the Canadian Charter of the rights and freedoms

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