The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees, at section 16, that French and English are the official languages of Canada and have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and government of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada would appear to see little potential in the affirmation of Canada’s official languages. Several commentators agree, dismissing the guarantee as no more than symbolic. A different reading of section 16 is proposed here, embracing the promise of official bilingualism in Canada and outlining some of the consequences that follow from Canada’s constitutional commitment to this declaration. Among the different proposals outlined in the paper, it is sug...
Grounding its approach in historical and discursive institutionalist frameworks, this thesis examine...
Language has become a central feature of the debate surrounding Canadian identity. The Canadian pro...
Minority language rights are both historically and politically central to the Canadian constitution....
The rights of people to use their mother tongues are both central to the Canadian constitution and y...
"The object of this book is to explain the nature of language rights and their importance in Canada'...
In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the underfunding of Britis...
This thesis explores the meaning and content of s. 41 of the Official Languages Act of Canada, which...
The language policies adopted by the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau have been widely criticize...
In Canada, French serves as a co-official but also a minority language, whose position is steadily d...
In the first section, I describe the problem of language in society, providing meaning for “language...
This thesis considers the right to education in mother tongue for Allophones in Canada from an inter...
The authors provide an interpretive framework for minority language education rights as guaranteed i...
La constitution canadienne renferme certaines dispositions qui traitent de l’utilisation du français...
Il s’agit du texte d’une conférence présentée à Montréal le 28 avril 1988 au Congrès international d...
In July 1974, the legislature of Quebec passed an Official Language Act, declaring French to be the ...
Grounding its approach in historical and discursive institutionalist frameworks, this thesis examine...
Language has become a central feature of the debate surrounding Canadian identity. The Canadian pro...
Minority language rights are both historically and politically central to the Canadian constitution....
The rights of people to use their mother tongues are both central to the Canadian constitution and y...
"The object of this book is to explain the nature of language rights and their importance in Canada'...
In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the underfunding of Britis...
This thesis explores the meaning and content of s. 41 of the Official Languages Act of Canada, which...
The language policies adopted by the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau have been widely criticize...
In Canada, French serves as a co-official but also a minority language, whose position is steadily d...
In the first section, I describe the problem of language in society, providing meaning for “language...
This thesis considers the right to education in mother tongue for Allophones in Canada from an inter...
The authors provide an interpretive framework for minority language education rights as guaranteed i...
La constitution canadienne renferme certaines dispositions qui traitent de l’utilisation du français...
Il s’agit du texte d’une conférence présentée à Montréal le 28 avril 1988 au Congrès international d...
In July 1974, the legislature of Quebec passed an Official Language Act, declaring French to be the ...
Grounding its approach in historical and discursive institutionalist frameworks, this thesis examine...
Language has become a central feature of the debate surrounding Canadian identity. The Canadian pro...
Minority language rights are both historically and politically central to the Canadian constitution....