Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
Which province uses the civil law tradition for private law matters instead of the common law tradition used in the rest of Canada?
- ○Ontario
- ○British Columbia
- ✓Quebec
- ○New Brunswick
Correct answer
Quebec
Quebec is the only Canadian province that uses a civil law system (based on the French Napoleonic tradition) for private law, while the rest of Canada follows the common law tradition.
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