Motion for mandatory injunction to require bilingual communications after choosing French proceedings dismissed.
The applicant, having chosen French for his application against the Halifax Port Authority, sought a mandatory injunction requiring the respondents to file evidence in French but communicate with him informally in English.
The Federal Court dismissed the motion, holding the applicant did not meet the test for a mandatory injunction.
Language rights under the Official Languages Act and the Charter allow a litigant to choose an official language, but do not permit imposing bilingual proceedings where the Crown must respond in both languages based on the litigant's ad hoc choices.
