Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the section of the Constitution of Canada that guarantees minority language educational rights to French - speaking communities outside Quebec, and, to a lesser extent, English - speaking minorities in Quebec. The section may be particularly notable, in that some scholars believe that section 23 "was the only part of the Charter with which Pierre Trudeau was truly concerned. '' Trudeau was the prime minister who fought for the inclusion of the Charter of Rights in the Constitution of Canada in 1982.
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guarantees minority language educational rights to French - speaking communities outside Quebec, and, to a lesser extent, English - speaking minorities in Quebec