SJNS Committee Report

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Committee Report

APPENDIX 2

BILATERAL SECTION 43 AMENDMENTS SINCE 1982

In 1987, Term 17 of the Newfoundland Terms of Union was amended to extend to the Pentecostal denomination the same educational rights held by seven other, constitutionally protected denominations in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 1993, section 16.1 was added to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, entrenching the equality of the two official language communities in New Brunswick.

In 1993, Prince Edward Island's Terms of Union were amended to substitute a bridge or fixed link, for the ferry service guaranteed in the Constitution.

In 1996, Term 17 of the Newfoundland Terms of Union was again amended.

Earlier this year, a Special Joint Committee, similar to this one in composition, studied and recommended the passage of a resolution, previously passed unanimously by the National Assembly of Quebec, removing the requirement for publicly funded denominational schooling in Quebec.