English-Speaking Québec and the Canadian Constitution: 1867-1988

The author argues that the safeguards for English Quebec in Canada's Constitution, first adopted in the British North America Act in 1867 when English Quebecers comprised twenty-five percent of the provincial population and when they were politically and economically powerful in Canada as a whole, were, by the 1980s when the English minority constituted only ten percent of the Quebec population and their political and economic power greatly diminished, no longer meaningful or effective.

Language, Culture and Curriculum

Vol. 1

no. 3

215-224

1988

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