Interventions gouvernementales en faveur du français au Québec et en Ontario

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Author/collaborator
Title
Interventions gouvernementales en faveur du français au Québec et en Ontario
Abstract
Although the author notes that Quebec's restrictive language law, Bill 101, has lead to the maintenance, and even to the growth, of the Quebec Francophonie and to the improvement of the identity image of the Quebec nation, leading to a more egalitarian and less conflictual, if not harmonious, situation with the rest of Canada, this better agreement has not necessarily applied to future relations between French Quebec and its English-speaking minority. He maintains that while it is clear that all the measures in favor of French taken in Quebec have rectified many past injustices and inequalities, the binding and restrictive nature of these measures has infringed some of the language rights previously enjoyed by the English-speaking community. He predicts that the net demographic decline recorded by the English-speaking community will make it more difficult to maintain independent English-speaking institutions such as McGill University (which he notes is becoming a bilingual university). The author concludes that there is within the English Quebec community a climate of gloom and anxiety about the future which hardly seems conducive to the establishment of good intergroup relations.
Publication
Langage & Société
Volume
No. 67
Pages
37-52
Date
1994
Language
fr
URL
Citation
Mougeon, Raymond. “Interventions gouvernementales en faveur du français au Québec et en Ontario.” Langage & Société No. 67 (1994): 37–52. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/1301.
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