Canada’s Official Languages Are English and French; What’s America’s?

September 23, 2009 at 7:12 pm · Filed under (All), Just for Laughs, Lawyer Talk

As stated in our Constitution,* the official languages of Canada are English and French. That’s why you see bilingual signs in Canadian airports. Accordingly, all Canadian federal laws are written in both English and French versions.

Interestingly, the U.S. Constitution doesn’t have a provision regarding its official language. Although American laws are exclusively written in English, at least at the federal level, it’s interesting to know that the U.S. technically doesn’t have an official language.

Perhaps the photograph below explains why…

via Instaputz

*The Constitution Act, 1867 (U.K.), 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3.

1 Comment »

  1. pei-shing said,

    September 23, 2009 @ 7:29 pm

    On the other hand, he/she did use the apostrophe correctly.

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