Les minorités en France, au Canada et au Québec : minoritaires ou mineures?

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Title
Les minorités en France, au Canada et au Québec : minoritaires ou mineures?
Abstract
An comparative examination of how minorities are treated in France, Canada and Quebec. The author points out that France, a liberal state, denies the legal existence of minorities, but de facto recognizes them. In Canada and Quebec, both corporatist states, populations are divided into three distinct groups: Indigenous Peoples, two founding peoples (French and British), and "others." The first two groups have exclusive rights, while the others, minorities, negative rights (non-discrimination and education) and, in some cases, positive (equality programs). However, in Quebec, one of the founding peoples, since the 1960s, have lost their nomenclature as a "founding people" and have become "Anglo-Québécois", a recognized minority but with lower rights than the Québécois majority. The author offers as an example of lesser rights the enactment in 1988 of Bill 178, legislation that overrode a Supreme Court of Canada decision that struck down a provision of Bill 101 (the Charter of the French Language) that denies multilingual commercial signs in the province. A few days after the court decision, the Liberal Government of Robert Bourassa enacted Bill 178 that triggered the "notwithstanding" clauses of the Quebec and Canadian Charters of Rights and Freedoms and maintained French as the only language on outdoor public signs, posters and commercial advertising and within shopping centres and public transit systems.
Publication
Politique
Volume
No. 20
Pages
5-33
Date
Automne 1991
Language
fr
URL
Citation
Bauer, Julien. “Les minorités en France, au Canada et au Québec : minoritaires ou mineures?” Politique No. 20 (Automne 1991): 5–33. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/po/1991-n20-po2525/040697ar.pdf.
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