La Charte de la langue française vue par les Anglophones

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
La Charte de la langue française vue par les Anglophones
Abstract
First outlining the demographic decline of the English-speaking community in Quebec since the 1990s, the author then gives a twenty-five year overview of the history of the Charter of the French Language, Bill 101, from an Anglophone perspective, and concludes that English Quebecers have come to accept that the Charter was necessary for the survival of French Quebec society, while at the same time acquiring their own identity within that society. However, the author maintains that the Quebec state apparatus, controlled by technocrats and academics, is interfering "continuously, insidiously and...perversely", in Quebec civil society, especially in the spheres of local and municipal institutions, and particularly in the fields of education, health services and local governance, community life, savings and credit unions, churches, and the family. He predicts that Anglo-Quebecers are now ready and able to assume their share of responsibility with Franco-Quebecers for the maintenance of the Quebec society against any internal or external threat.
Publication
Revue d’aménagement linguistique
Volume
Hors série
Pages
27-34
Date
Automne 2002
Language
fr
URL
Citation
Caldwell, Gary. “La Charte de la langue française vue par les Anglophones.” Revue d’aménagement linguistique Hors série (Automne 2002): 27–34. https://www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bibliotheque/ouvrages/amenagement_hs/ral01_charte_caldwell_vf_1.pdf.
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