language in saskatchewan correct me if i'm wrong but my understanding is that the mercure decision held that article of the north west territories act determined that saskatchewan was bilingual in a context in which jurisdiction over language rights not specified by the charter is undetermined this means a conflict between bill and the north west territories act exists from the canlii website article embodies procedural rules that give rights to individuals and in fact those rules are to some extent framed in terms of rights they are language rights or language guarantees as all the cases in this court from jones to soci t des acadiens make clear section was not entrenched after the saskatchewan act was passed this like the continuation of s is entirely in accord with the legislative history of these provisions many of the questions raised about the reach of the protections like those accorded under s have already been determined in recent cases before this court either under s of the constitution act s of the manitoba act or ss of the charter all of these provisions are differently drafted but they use similar expressions and there has been a marked tendency to give them a similar interpretation section was obviously modelled on s the language rights accorded by s are substantially the same as those accorded under these other provisions r v mercure iijcan c s c s c r paquette v a g canada and a g alberta canlii s c c s c r given all this what can we say with authority about what the official language s in sk is are i'm not a lawyer but i'm concerned that the article accurately reflect the legal reality