SUPREME
COURT OF CANADA
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Citation: Forum
des maires de la Péninsule acadienne v. Canada (Food Inspection
Agency), [2005] 3 S.C.R. 906,
2005 SCC 85
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Date: 20051219
Docket: 30545
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Between:
Forum
des maires de la Péninsule acadienne
et
Société des Acadiens et Acadiennes du
Nouveau‑Brunswick
Appellants
and
Canadian
Food Inspection Agency
Respondent
and
Attorney
General of New Brunswick, Commissioner of Official
Languages,
Fédération des communautés francophones et
acadiennes
du Canada, Fédération des associations de juristes
d’expression
française de common law inc., Fédération nationale
des
conseils scolaires francophones and Commission nationale
des
parents francophones
Interveners
Coram:
McLachlin C.J. and Binnie, LeBel, Deschamps, Fish, Abella and Charron JJ.
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Judgment
(leave to appeal withdrawn):
(para. 1)
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The Court
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Forum des maires de la Péninsule acadienne v. Canada (Food
Inspection Agency), [2005] 3 S.C.R. 906, 2005 SCC 85
Forum des maires de la Péninsule acadienne
et Société des Acadiens et Acadiennes du
Nouveau‑Brunswick Appellants
v.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Respondent
and
Attorney General of New Brunswick, Commissioner of Official
Languages, Fédération des communautés francophones et
acadiennes du Canada, Fédération des associations de juristes
d’expression française de common law inc., Fédération nationale
des conseils scolaires francophones and Commission nationale
des parents francophones Interveners
Indexed as: Forum des maires de la Péninsule acadienne v.
Canada (Food Inspection Agency)
Neutral citation: 2005 SCC 85.
File No.: 30545.
2005: December 19.
Present: McLachlin C.J. and Binnie, LeBel,
Deschamps, Fish, Abella and Charron JJ.
leave to appeal withdrawn
Practice — Leave to appeal — Public importance —
Leave to appeal granted — Questions of law for which leave to appeal was
granted no longer of public importance in view of enactment and coming into
force of amendments to official languages legislation — Leave to appeal
withdrawn.
Statutes and Regulations Cited
Act to amend the Official
Languages Act (promotion of English and French),
S.C. 2005, c. 41 .
LEAVE TO APPEAL granted on February 17, 2005,
[2005] 1 S.C.R. ix, from a judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal
(Richard C.J. and Décary and Noël JJ.A.), [2004] 4 F.C.R. 276,
243 D.L.R. (4th) 542, 324 N.R. 314, 22 Admin. L.R.
(4th) 161, [2004] F.C.J. No. 1235 (QL),
2004 CarswellNat 2619, 2004 FCA 263. Leave to appeal
withdrawn.
JUDGMENT
1
In view of the enactment and coming into force on November 25,
2005, after leave to appeal had been granted, of Bill S‑3, An Act
to amend the Official Languages Act (promotion of English and French),
S.C. 2005, c. 41, the questions of law for which leave was granted
are no longer of public importance and do not justify maintaining that leave.
For this reason, the leave to appeal granted in this case is withdrawn and is
declared to be of no effect; no order is made as to costs.
Judgment accordingly.
Solicitors for the appellants: Michel Doucet, Moncton;
Godin Lizotte Robichaud & Guignard, Shippagan; Heenan Blaikie, Toronto.
Solicitor for the respondent: Deputy Attorney General of
Canada, Ottawa.
Solicitor for the intervener the Attorney General of
New Brunswick: Attorney General of New Brunswick, Fredericton.
Solicitor for the intervener the Commissioner of Official
Languages: Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, Ottawa.
Solicitors for the interveners Fédération des communautés
francophones et acadiennes du Canada and Fédération des associations de
juristes d’expression française de common law inc.: Heenan Blaikie,
Ottawa.
Solicitors for the interveners Fédération nationale des conseils
scolaires francophones and Commission nationale des parents
francophones: Heenan Blaikie, Toronto.
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