Losing Relevance : Quebec and the Constitutional Politics of Language

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Author/collaborator
Title
Losing Relevance : Quebec and the Constitutional Politics of Language
Abstract
The author asks whether Quebec has lost relevance in the constitutional politics of language. She proposes a doctrinal analysis of the Supreme Court’s Charter jurisprudence, with an emphasis on the most recent body of case law, and an assessment of its political consequences in the area of language policy in Quebec. The author argues that constitutional review has increasingly protected individual rights over Quebec’s collective right to maintain its language and culture. This can be explained by the move towards an implacable parallel constitutionalism and a redefinition of official minority linguistic rights in the jurisprudence, as well as by the exhaustion of Quebec’s legislative counterattacks to court rulings. The author concludes that Quebec is no longer driving concepts of Canadian citizenship. Undifferentiated rather than multinational citizenship appears to be the direction in which Charter language jurisprudence is taking Canada.
Publication
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Volume
Vol. 52
Issue
no. 1
Pages
191-233
Date
2015
Language
en
URL
Citation
Richez, Emmanuelle. “Losing Relevance : Quebec and the Constitutional Politics of Language.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal Vol. 52, no. 1 (2015): 191–233. http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2795&context=ohlj.
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