Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Book II, Education
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Book V, The Federal capital. Book VI, Voluntary associations
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Transforming Rights
Author: Maxwell YaldenPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442697334
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Maxwell Yalden began his career in the Department of External Affairs; he was posted to /aMoscow and Paris, and later as ambassador to Belguim. As Canada's Language Commissioner from 1977-1984, he worked to reinforce the Official Languages Act, and language equality, encouraging Canadians to become more inclusive in their attitudes towards both official languages. Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission from 1987-1996, he also served for eight years as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Transforming Rights draws on Yalden's extensive experience in rights work to provide a personal assessment of how issues of human rights and language rights have evolved over the past forty years, both within Canada and internationally. Transforming Rights contends that Canadian rights principles reflect a unique history and character and examines the interplay of historical and contemporary Canadian standards with comparable international norms. Yalden argues that Canada's rights achievements demonstrate that though it may not be possible to change beliefs and attitudes through policy and legislation, it is certainly possible to change behaviour - facilitating the expansion of rights. Authoritative and anecdotal, Yalden offers an informed insider's opinion on continuously evolving human rights norms and the impact they have had on the way that people live their lives.
The Fate of Canada
Author: Graham FraserPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009421
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
From 1963 until 1971, a group of distinguished Canadians wrestled with the language conflict that ran the risk of tearing the country apart. Among their ranks, F.R. Scott – a poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, human rights activist, and law professor – kept diaries that recounted the meetings of one of Canada’s most significant royal commissions. The Fate of Canada introduces readers to Scott’s biography, puts his diary entries into the political context of the time, and identifies the people he met and the places he visited during the hearings of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Scott’s journal entries recording the earliest meetings convey optimism for a bilingual Canada. As the years pass, however, he becomes increasingly concerned that bilingualism is in danger, and Quebec’s English community threatened. His remarks convey a sense of humour and mutual respect amongst the commissioners despite the tensions over language within the group – and across the country. Scott was a champion of English-language rights in Quebec. Never before published, these diaries provide remarkable insight into the inner life of one of twentieth-century Canada’s most significant intellectuals, and a royal commission that shaped the nation’s language policy for decades to come.
A Source Book of Royal Commissions and Other Major Governmental Inquiries in Canadian Education, 1787-1978
Author: Cary F. GoulsonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148759772X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This is a comprehensive primary reference to a rich and often neglected storehouse of information on Canada's educational background. As the boundary between full-fledged royal commissions and other official governmental inquiries is not always clear -- and many legislative committee inquiries and special department of education investigations have been as significant in educational development as regular commissions -- Goulson has included all major ministerial-level governmental inquiries in Canadian education between 1787 and 1978. More than 300 inquiries are included, among them general, special interest, judicial, legislative, parliamentary, and other governmental committees. The information provided for each includes the type of commission or committee, its size, chairman, purpose, dates of appointment and reporting, and primary source references, as well as a selection of its major conclusions and/or recommendations. Official governmental records and documents including the Reports themselves, Legislative Journals, House Debates and Hansard, Sessional Papers, Statutes, and Department of Education records were used as the resource base. This volume will be of specific interest to teachers and students of the history of education, and most educators, no matter what their fields, will find it useful.
A Preliminary Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher: New York : Arno Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Prelim. report in English and French; Books I and II in English only.
As I Recall
Author: John MeiselPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886451738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This collection of papers seeks to bridge the divide between English and French Canada by bringing to light the distinctive viewpoints of those two sides regarding historical events. It chronicles 34 events that have marked political relations between the two linguistic communities from the arrival of the British in 1759 through to the 1995 Quebec referendum. Each event is summarized from the viewpoint of both Anglophones and Francophones. Chapter 1 covers early events including the British conquest, the 1830s rebellions, Confederation, and the hanging of Louis Riel. Chapter 2 covers the making of the welfare state, including unemployment insurance, tax rental agreements, pension plans, and health insurance. Chapter 3 covers Canadian identity events such as creation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, adoption of a new flag, and bilingualism & multiculturalism policies. Chapter 4 covers events in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution, including the DeGaulle visit in 1967, the October 1970 crisis, Quebec language laws, and the 1982 patriation of the Constitution. Chapter 5 covers economic debates, including the Churchill Falls power contract and the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. The final chapter is entitled "Failed reconciliation" and includes papers on the Meech Lake Accord, the 1990 crisis at Oka, and the Charlottetown accord of 1992. Includes index.
Linguistics in North America, 1
Author: William BrightPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111418782
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
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