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2. Official Languages Act (Canada) - Wikipedia

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   The Official Languages Act was one of the cornerstones of the government of Pierre Trudeau.The law was an attempt to implement some of the policy objectives outlined by the federally commissioned Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, which had been established in 1963 and since that time had been issuing periodic reports on the inequitable manner in which Canada's English ...

3. Official bilingualism in Canada - Wikipedia

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   Bilingual (English/French) stop sign on Parliament Hill in Ottawa [7] Royal Military College Paladins Bilingual (English/French) Scoreboard, inner field, Royal Military College of Canada [8] Bilingual (French/English) sign for Preston Street (rue Preston) in Ottawa, placed above a sign marking that the street is in Little Italy, an example of bilingualism at the municipal government level [9

4. French language in Canada - Wikipedia

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   By the 1969 Official Languages Act, both English and French are recognized as official languages in Canada and granted equal status by the Canadian government. [5] While French, with no specification as to dialect or variety, has the status of one of Canada's two official languages at the federal government level , English is the native ...

5. Official bilingualism in the public service of Canada - Wikipedia

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   However, this trend has reversed itself in recent decades. Today, French is the first official language of 23% of Canada's population, [1] with 29.2% of Public Service of Canada employees identifying French as their first official language, [2] including 32% of management-level jobs. [3]

6. Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada - Wikipedia

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   The Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC; French: Cours de langue pour les immigrants au Canada, CLIC) program is a free language education programme—funded and regulated by the Canadian government's Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship—that offers full-time and part-time English- (excluding Quebec) and French-language lessons to adult permanent residents (or ...

7. Language policies of Canada's provinces and territories

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   At the time of Confederation in 1867, English and French were made the official languages of debate in the Parliament of Canada and the Parliament of Quebec.No specific policies were enacted for the other provinces, and no provisions were made for the official languages to be used in other elements of the government such the courts, schools, post offices, and so on.