Canada Act 1982
Back in 1982, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed an act, known as Canada Act. Canada Act is a part of the Constitution of Canada. The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada, and any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect. It was enacted to the Constitution at the request of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada. Proclamation of the Constitution Act was signed on April 17, 1982 in Ottawa by Queen, attorney general, registrar general, and prime minister, which de facto confirmed approval of the Canada Act.
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Canada Act 1982 has two parts, Schedule A and Schedule B known as Constitutional Act 1982. Schedule A contains enactment of the Constitution Act, termination of power to legislate for Canada, French version explanation, and short title. Schedule B contains seven parts, including the Canadian Charter of rights and freedom.
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The Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 contains conditions or subjects under which Canada Act, 1982 take an effect. One of them is:
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And Whereas section 58 of the Constitution Act, 1982, set out in Schedule B to the Canada Act, provides that the Constitution Act, 1982 shall, subject to section 59 thereof, come into force on a day to be fixed by proclamation issued under the Great Seal of Canada.
Section 58 of the Constitution Act, 1982 :
Subject to section 59, this Act shall come into force on a day to be fixed by proclamation issued by the Queen or the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada.
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Section 59 of the Constitution Act, 1982:
(1) Paragraph 23(1)(a) shall come into force in respect of Quebec on a day to be fixed by proclamation issued by the Queen or the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada.
(2) A proclamation under subsection (1) shall be issued only where authorized by the legislative assembly or government of Quebec.
(3) This section may be repealed on the day paragraph 23(1)(a) comes into force in respect of Quebec and this Act amended and renumbered, consequentially upon the repeal of this section, by proclamation issued by the Queen or the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada.
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Paragraph 23 of the Constitution Act, 1982:
23. (1) Citizens of Canada (a) whose first language learned and still understood is that of the English or French linguistic minority population of the province in which they reside, or
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Another subject of The Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 is:
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Now Know You that We, by and with the advice Our Privy Council for Canada, do by this Our Proclamation, declare that the Constitution Act, 1982 shall, subject to section 59 thereof, come into force on the seventeenth day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-two.
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In Quebec, there is an Act respecting the constitution Act, 1982. The act contains two divisions, that the second one is following {statute is current to November 1. 2021}:
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PROVISION RELATING TO SECTION 59 OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982
4. The Government shall not authorize a proclamation under subsection 1 of section 59 of the Constitution Act, 1982 without obtaining the prior consent of the National Assembly.
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That’s mean, that to date of November 1, 2021 {no information about update since them} government of Quebec or legislative assembly of Quebec, as only institutions with the power to do so by Section 59 of the Constitution Act, 1982, subsection {2}, still did not authorize the issue of subsection 59{1} of the Constitution Act, 1982 what is one of the conditions under the Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 to that the Constitutional Act, 1982, including Canadians charters of rights and freedoms take to effect.
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The last subject of The Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982:
Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all other whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.
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The word shall in the jurisdiction: an imperative command, has a duty to or is required to.
– DB
