Page "Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General)" Paragraph 1

The appeal, launched by the government of Quebec, consolidated many cases initiated by Montreal-area merchants such as Montreal florist Hyman Singer and West Island wool shop owner Valerie Ford.

They had been fined for violation of the Charter of the French Language and decided to fight the case in court.

Following anonymous complaints, the Office québécois de la langue française had instructed them to inform and serve their customers in French and replace their bilingual French and English signs with unilingual French ones.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the decisions of the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal.