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'''Language Rights Support Program''' (LRSP) is a non-profit organisation whose objectives are “to promote awareness of language rights through public education; to offer access to alternative dispute resolution processes to settle disputes out of court; to support litigation that helps to advance and clarify constitutional language rights when test cases are involved and dispute resolution efforts have not resolved matters.” <ref>http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/lo-ol/pgm/pubs/padl-lrsp/101-eng.cfm</ref>

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'''Language Rights Support Program''' (LRSP) is or was a non-profit organisation whose objectives are “to"to promote awareness of [[language rights]] through public education; to offer access to alternative dispute resolution processes to settle disputes out of court; to support litigation that helps to advance and clarify constitutional language rights when test cases are involved and dispute resolution efforts have not resolved matters.” "<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Canadian Heritage Website |url=http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/lo-ol/pgm/pubs/padl-lrsp/101-eng.cfm |title=Language Rights Support Program|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924045942/http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/lo-ol/pgm/pubs/padl-lrsp/101-eng.cfm |archive-date= 2009-09-24 }}</ref>

Following the abolition of the [[Court Challenges Program of Canada]] in 2006, the Language Rights Support Program was created in 2008, receiving an annual budget of $1.5 million from the Government of Canada.<ref>http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/infoCntr/cdm-mc/index-eng.cfm?action=doc&DocIDCd=CJV080890</ref>

Following the abolition of the [[Court Challenges Program of Canada]] in 2006, the Language Rights Support Program was created in 2008, receiving an annual budget of $1.5 million from the Government of Canada.<ref>http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/infoCntr/cdm-mc/index-eng.cfm?action=doc&DocIDCd=CJV080890</ref>

The LRSP works to promote constitutional language rights in Canada and offers financial aid to individuals, groups and non-profit organizations who belong to [[official bilingualism in Canada|official language]] communities in Canada and who feel their constitutional language rights have been breached.

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==External links==

* [{{cite web |url=http://www.padl-lrsp.uottawa.ca/index.php?lang=en |title=Language Rights Support Program] |access-date=2013-08-26 |archive-date=2013-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907044334/http://www.padl-lrsp.uottawa.ca/index.php?lang=en |url-status=dead }}

* [{{cite web|url=http://www.media.uottawa.ca/mediaroom/news-details_1724.html |title= The University of Ottawa] to manage the new Language Rights Support Program |date=September 9, 2009 |publisher=University of Ottawa|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211920/http://www.media.uottawa.ca/mediaroom/news-details_1724.html |archive-date= 2011-07-06 }}

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