2019
DOI: 10.1111/capa.12311
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Connecting power to protection: The political bases of language commissioners in Canada

Abstract: This article explores the connection between the strength of Canadian federal, provincial and territorial language regimes and the political power of the underlying language group. Although such regimes should ideally be constructed to defend languages that are vulnerable, they are more often based on the ability of a language group to organize politically to win the laws they want. Thus, many small linguistic groups, such as those in Nunavut, benefit from very strong protections given their demographic weight… Show more

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“…Its main policy objective consists in guaranteeing "an individual's right to receive services in French from the Government of Ontario ministries and agencies in 26 designated areas" (Office of Francophone Affairs, 2018). Recent public policy research has compared the language regimes of Canada, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nunavut and deemed that the power of the Ontario regime is "low", while that of the Quebec one is "high" (McDougall, 2019). 4 However, such a perspective takes the standpoint of Quebec's Francophone majority, and thus French as the target language to be protected.…”
Section: Contextual Variable #1: Institutions Linguistic and Cultural...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Its main policy objective consists in guaranteeing "an individual's right to receive services in French from the Government of Ontario ministries and agencies in 26 designated areas" (Office of Francophone Affairs, 2018). Recent public policy research has compared the language regimes of Canada, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nunavut and deemed that the power of the Ontario regime is "low", while that of the Quebec one is "high" (McDougall, 2019). 4 However, such a perspective takes the standpoint of Quebec's Francophone majority, and thus French as the target language to be protected.…”
Section: Contextual Variable #1: Institutions Linguistic and Cultural...mentioning
confidence: 99%