Talk:Reference Re Manitoba Language Rights

The parking ticket
Surely this article would be better if mentioned the origin of this case, namely a lawyer named George Forest who in 1976 got a parking ticket and complained that it was illegal as the ticket was only in English. The Manitoba Act which created the province all the way back in 1870 stated that English and French were the official languages of Manitoba at a time when the Metis were still the majority in Manitoba. The authorities told Forest to shut up and just pay your damned parking ticket. But Forest did not, saying the parking ticket should had been in both French and English, and went to the courts to argue that this parking ticket was illegal. This caused almost a decade of litigation in the courts before the Supreme Court finally ruled in 1985 that yes, because of the Manitoba Act, that this parking ticket should had indeed been bilingual and was therefore illegal, so Mr. Forest shouldn't had to pay it. So because of that ruling, all government documents in Manitoba have to in both French and English, and if by-law officer in Manitoba gives you a parking ticket only in English, you don't have to pay it because it is illegal. I don't know much this Mr. Forest spent in litigation to prove his point, but it must had costed considerably more than his parking ticket. --A.S. Brown (talk) 03:35, 2 January 2019 (UTC)