[lg policy] Does Quebec=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=French language policy really need revitalizing?

[Harold Schiffman]

Slaw: Does Quebec’s French language policy really need revitalizing?



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In the wake of the Quebec government tabling Bill 14, An Act to amend the
Charter of the French language, the [Quebec] Charter of Rights and Freedoms
and other legislative provisions to improve yet again the eminence of the
French language in Quebec, the Conseil supérieur de la langue française
(CSLF) is of the opinion that the government needs to take a hard-line
approach if it wants French to really be the common language of all
Quebecers.

This reinforces the government’s approach, as the National Assembly is
about to debate the soundness of the Bill.

The council was created to advise the Minister responsible for the
implementation of the Charter of the French language on matters relating to
the use of the French language in Quebec. To that end, the advisory board
re-examined the spirit of the law and provided the Minister, Diane De
Courcy, a series of recommendations with the goal of revitalizing the
language policy.

There are several recommendations, but the following are of particular
importance.

The CSLF believes that the trend in recent years is not meeting the desired
objective, which is to make French the normal and everyday language of work
of all Quebecers.

Read more:
http://blog.firstreference.com/2013/03/08/slaw-does-quebecs-french-language-policy-really-need-revitalizing/#ixzz2NQutWl51


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