He maintained that the failure to provide bilingual services was a violation of Section 22 of the provincial Official Languages Act, which states that bilingual services should be provided by all institutions of the provincial government—which raised the question of whether a municipality is, legally speaking, a provincial institution.
The individual contended that the absence of bilingual services was in contravention of Section 22 of the provincial Official Languages Act, which requires that all provincial government entities provide bilingual services—raising the issue of whether a municipality is deemed a provincial entity from a legal standpoint.