No, the Supreme Court didn’t declare unilingual Canadians ‘inferior’

The Supreme Court of Canada recently handed down a landmark decision on a narrow but important constitutional question: must the lieutenant governor of New Brunswick — the Crown’s representative in Canada’s only officially bilingual province — be able to perform the functions of that office in both official languages? A six-judge majority answered yes. Three judges disagreed. Reasonable people can debate which side got it right. But the debate should begin with an accurate understanding of…