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The first Official Languages Act (OLA), which was enacted in 1969, and the Parliamentary Resolution on Official Languages in the Public Service, which was passed in 1973, declared that English and French would enjoy equality of status in all institutions of Parliament and of the Government of Canada.
A new Official Languages Act came into effect in 1988. This new OLA and the Official Languages Regulations, adopted in 1991, not only gave effect to the guarantees provided for in the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but also set out the criteria for communications with the public and the delivery of services to the public and to federal employees in English and French.
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