Kevin Ingles Bilimguismo
Official bilingualism in various forms dates back to 1867, in times of Canadian Confederation, when the Acts of the British North America allowed both French and English in the parliamentarydebates and judgments of the federal courts.
Bilingualism in its modern form has its origin in the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, which began work in 1963 and led to the OfficialLanguages Act in 1969.
To standardize a corporate identity in the Canadian government, in 1970 the Federal Identity Program (which assumed an equality of use of English and French in all federalinstitutions in English Federal Identity Program) is established.
In 1974 it enters into force the Law on the packaging and labeling of consumer products requiring use both English and French in thelabeling of all consumer products distributed nationwide.
In 1977, Quebec introduced its Charter of the French language (the so-called "Law 101") to promote and preserve the French in the province,indirectly challenging the federal bilingualism policy.
In 1982, the Constitution Act, 1982 (which the Quebec government did not give its approval) forced the provinces and territories, in accordance withsection 23, to provide education in both official languages where numbers so warrant, that is, where demand was high enough.
In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Ford v. Quebec provisions ofthe law on commercial posters of the Charter of the French Language in Quebec (prohibiting the use of the English language in the outer signs) were unconstitutional. Quebec's National Assemblyadopted its Law 86 in 1993, drawing on the suggestions in the Supreme Court of 1988, which approved the use of other languages in the commercial posters on condition that the French version waspredominant.
On March 9, 2005, the province of Ontario amended the City of Ottawa to officially recognize its bilingual character.
El bilingüismo oficial en sus diversas formas se remonta a 1867, en tiempos...
Regístrate para leer el documento completo.