50 Years of Official Biligualism - Softcover
Fifty years ago, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism published its final report. The result of innovative research and public consultations across the country, this report, replete with data and concepts, sets the stage for a comprehensive policy on official bilingualism, which would profoundly and indelibly change the face of Canada. The resolve to affirm the officially bilingual character of the country was met with the equally fervent determination to make French the common language of Quebecers. This book provides a critical view of the content and the consequences of the report. It is the outcome of a series of conferences held across the country in 2013, which explored the impact of these two aspects. It combines analyses of the Commission's activities, its main players, and the specific content of certain volumes of the report. The book is divided into three parts: the first outlines the progress accomplished since the publication of the report and contributors views of the challenges which continue to create controversy; the second part provides analyses and studies of topics covered by the Commission, effectively demonstrating how far things have evolved; and the third features testimonials, including a fascinating conversation between the first Commissioner for Official Languages, Keith Spicer, and the Commissioner in office at the time of publication, Graham Fraser. This political, scholarly and introspective work will captivate all readers who are interested in linguistic debates in Canada and around the world. It is destined to make an original and essential contribution to the study of a defining moment in Canada's evolution.
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Richard Clément is a professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa. He is also the University Research Chair on Bilingualism and Society, and the founder and director of the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute. His research interests include bilingualism, language acquisition, identity changes and acculturation. Clément is especially interested in the role of inter-group language communication in psychological adjustment and social harmony. He has received numerous national and international awards for his work and is currently a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association. In 2008, he was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada. Pierre Foucher earned an LL.B. from Université de Montréal in 1977 and an LL.M. in Administrative Law from Queen s University at Kingston in 1981. He has been a member of the Barreau du Québec since 1978. He has been teaching in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa since 2008, in both the civil law and the common law sections. Before that, Foucher was a professor in the law faculty at Université de Moncton from 1980 to 2008 and associate dean from 1987 to 1992. Specializing in language rights, minority rights and constitutional law, he is regularly invited to national and international conferences and has written extensively on these topics. He is currently a part-time analyst for the Language Rights Support Program and an associate researcher at the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.
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- PublisherInvenire
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1927465184
- ISBN 13 9781927465189
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages119
- EditorRichard Clément, Pierre Foucher
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