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New Brunswick has typically experienced less emigration than its size and economic situation would suggest, probably because of the low rate of emigration of its Francophone population. [1] New Brunswick was predicted to continue low or negative population growth in the long term due to interprovincial migration and a low birth rate.
Executive Council and Office of the Premier [38] / Conseil exécutif et Bureau du premier ministre. [39] Education Act, 1995 [40] / Loi de 1995 sur l'éducation [41] R v Mercure: Francophone Affairs Branch (French-language Service Centre) [42] / Direction des affaires francophones (Centre de services en langue française Bonjour!). [43] English ...
A board of directors is responsible for the overall administration of the business and affairs of Service New Brunswick. [2] SNB consists of multiple lines of business: It delivers a number of services to the public on behalf of departments and agencies including the Canadian government and New Brunswick municipalities.
The Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick (SANB), known in English as the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, is an organization representing Francophones and Acadians in New Brunswick, [1] the only bilingual province in Canada and the largest Acadian population in the country. [2]
The province also has a high proportion of people that speak both languages, with 246,000 people, or 33.2% of the population speaking English and French (though Francophones make up two-thirds of those who are bilingual). [11] Language policy is a perennial issue in New Brunswick politics and society.
The Government of New Brunswick (French: Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the provincial government of the province of New Brunswick. Its powers and structure are set out in the Constitution Act, 1867 .
The new law created an Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of New Brunswick [2] with a mandate to apply the Official Languages Act in governmental institutions, and to promote bilingualism in New Brunswick. It also considers matters such as reasonable criteria for the translation of municipal laws, and the revision of the act every ...
Jurisdiction in matters of immigration in Quebec is shared with the Canadian government, in accordance to the Constitution Act of 1867 (article 95) and the 1991 Canada–Québec Accord relating to Immigration and Temporary Admission of Aliens. The federal government pays financial compensation to Quebec in order to ensure the reception and ...