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The Language Crisis: An Exchange of Views
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The Language Crisis: An Exchange of Views
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| Abstract |
An exchange of differing views between the two authors over the demographic status of the Anglophone community in Quebec in the late 1970s, following the introduction of Bill 101, the Charter of the French Language. Stevenson argues that based on the 1971 census data used by Beaujot, individuals in Quebec with a French mother tongue increased by 4.4 percent in the five year period prior to the 1976 victory of the Parti Québécois government, while individuals with an English mother tongue increased by only 3.3 percent and "others" actually decreased (for the first time in history) by 8.4 percent. Since the English group in Quebec during this period augmented itself by assimilating immigrants and not to any extent by assimilating Francophones, Stevenson's conclusion was that the pool of potential Anglophones in Quebec was diminishing.
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Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques
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Vol. 5
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no. 4
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561-563
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Autumn 1979
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en
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Beaujot's original article can be found at: "The Decline of Official Language Minorities in Quebec and English Canada." The Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 7, no. 4, (Autumn 1982): p. 367–389. |
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Stevenson, Garth, and Roderic P. Beaujot. “The Language Crisis: An Exchange of Views.” Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques Vol. 5, no. 4 (Autumn 1979): 561–563.
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