A New Brunswick court has ordered an anglophone health network in the province to pay $5,000 to a Moncton man for violating his language rights.

Paul Ouellet launched a lawsuit against Horizon Health Network after alleging staff at the Moncton Hospital failed to serve him in French on numerous occasions in 2020. At the time, he had been overseeing the care of his sister at the hospital’s psychiatric unit.

He identified 13 separate instances, between May and August 2020, when he said staff were unable to serve him in French.

Dominic Caron, Ouellet’s lawyer, described the case as groundbreaking, saying this is the first time a court in New Brunswick has awarded damages to someone after their language rights were violated.

Caron said previous cases have typically revolved around collectiv

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