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F.R. Scott and the Origins of Language Policy in Canada
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F.R. Scott and the Origins of Language Policy in Canada
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The author outlines the role played by lawyer, socialist, poet and McGill University law professor F.R. Scott (1899–1985) on the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-1969). The Commission was a federal government response to the growing unrest among French Quebec nationalists, who called for the protection of their language and culture, both in the province and across Canada. The Commission's report led to the enactment of the federal Official Languages Act in 1969. The statute that made English and French the official languages of Canada (at the federal level) and acknowledges English Quebec as an Official Language Minority.
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Language, Policy and Territory : A Festschrift for Colin H. Williams
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Cham, Switzerland
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022
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237-255
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en
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978-3-030-94345-5
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Fraser, Graham. “F.R. Scott and the Origins of Language Policy in Canada.” In Language, Policy and Territory : A Festschrift for Colin H. Williams, edited by Wilson McLeod, Robert Dunbar, Kathryn Jones, and John Walsh, 237–255. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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