Talk:R v Mercure

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• ... that the Supreme Court of Canada granted an appeal from a dead Roman Catholic priest and quashed his conviction on a speeding ticket?

• Source: "The court allowed the appeal on February 25, 1988, in a 6-2 decision, setting aside the late Père Mercure's conviction on the speeding ticket." Cite: R v Mercure, [1988] 1 SCR 234, at p. 244: "The appellant, Father Mercure, was charged with speeding contrary to s. 139(4) of The Vehicles Act", and p. 282: "I would, therefore, allow the appeal with costs in this Court and in the Court of Appeal, and quash the conviction."

• • ALT1: ... that in 1986, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a decision holding that all Saskatchewan laws since 1905 were void, because they were enacted in English only? Source: "All laws enacted since 1905, Saskatchewan’s entry into Confederation, were invalid"; cite: Irvine, "Language Rights in Saskatchewan", p. 150: "All unilingual territorial ordinances and Saskatchewan laws were therfore void ab initio, and the Legislature was requried to re-enact them all in bilingual format."
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  • Comment: I had made some minor edits to this article recently in June, but I started the major expansion on 2026-07-06 21:33. At that time, according to the Page size tool, the article was 167 words long of "readable prose size". As of the last edit on 2026-07-13 11:58, the "readable prose size" was 2127 words, which is over ten times expansion.

5x expanded by Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:42, 13 July 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Expanded 5x in the period 4 June till 13 July (though the bulk of the changes took place after 6 July), submitted to DYK on 13 July. No copyright issues, Earwig's Copyvio Detector gives 8.3%. Long enough. QPQ done. The hooks are interesting, mentioned and cited. Looks good to go. A.Cython(talk) 05:28, 17 July 2026 (UTC)