Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
linguistic rights and discriminatory policies in Canada
Elaboration
- Sample topics:
- deportation of the Acadians (the Great Expulsion)
- Durham Report (1839)
- Official Languages Act (1969)
- Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and
- Freedoms (1982)
- the right to French-language education in Canada:
- Laurier-Greenway Compromise (MB)
- Regulation 17 (ON)
- Mahé decision (AB)
- Québec immigration laws, regulations, and policies
- development of French immersion (1965)
- Québec’s Bill 101 (1977)
- founding of Canadian Parents for French (1977) and the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (1977)
- economic segregation of French Canadians before the Quiet Revolution
- slavery in French colonies in the Americas (e.g., Louisiana, Haiti, the story of Marie-Josèphe Angélique)
- significant legal cases:
- Arsenault-Cameron (PEI, 1995-2000)
- Mercure (SK, 1980-88)
- Mahé (AB, 1990)
- Doucet-Boudreau (NS, 2004)
- École Anne-Hébert (BC, 2005-15)
- Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique (BC, 2006-present)
- important demands:
- Maillardville Francophone school strike (BC, 1951)
- Université de Moncton student strike (NB, 1968)
- Piquette case (AB, 1987)
- SOS Montfort (ON, 1997)
- access to education and the 2005 and 2012 student strikes (PQ)
keywords
linguistic rights and discriminatory policies in Canada