Title Bilingual today, united tomorrow : official languages in education and Canadian federalism / Matthew Hayday

Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) Contents Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- A Linguistic Divide, a Crisis of Canadian Unity -- A Century of Language Conflict in Canada -- From Royal Commission to Government Policy, 1963â€?1970 -- Growing Pains and Intergovernmental Squabbles, 1970â€?1976 -- Lévesqueâ€?s Gambit Fails: A New English Canadian Consensus, 1976â€?1979 -- The Constitutional DebÃØcle and the Rise of Language Rights, 1979â€?1983 -- A New Equilibrium: Official-Languages Discourse and Canadian National Identity -- Federal Funding of the Official Languages in Education Program NotesBibliography -- Index Summary "In an appraisal of official bilingualism, Matthew Hayday demonstrates that the language programs and policies initiated by the Trudeau government supported French-Canadian and Acadian minority communities. He argues that these policies enabled the development of minority language education systems and laid the foundations for the language rights contained in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms."--BOOK JACKET Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index Notes Print version record Subject Official Languages in Education Program (Canada) SUBJECT Official Languages in Education Program (Canada) fast Subject Language policy -- Canada -- History Language and education -- Government policy -- Canada Education, Bilingual -- Canada LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics. EDUCATION -- General. Education, Bilingual Language and education -- Government policy Language policy Canada Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773559967 0773559965

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