Canada's Language Policy in History

Anticipating Commisions Impact

Jul 28, 1967

Some provinces changed their education act towards more use of French as lkanguage of instruction

Official Lanauage Act

Jul 30, 1969

The Official Languages Act received Royal Assent.

Education Program

Oct 30, 1970

1970-1971
Creation of the official languages in education programs.

Muticulturalism Policy

Oct 30, 1971

The Federal Government declared itself by policy multicultural. this Muticultural policy pleged to promote and respect all Canada's languages and cultures.

Multicuturalism Enrichment Program

Oct 28, 1977

Cultural Enrichment Program Created under the 1971 Policy of Muticulturalism

Special Joint Committee Created

May 30, 1980

Parliament created a special joint committee on Offical Languages, responsible for evaluating progress made in 10 years since the passage of the Official Language Act.

Joint Committee

May 28, 1984

Parliament struck the standing Joint Committee on Official Languages policies and Programs.

Official Language Act

Jul 28, 1988

The new Official Languagse Act received Royal Assent

Supreme Court Rules

Oct 27, 1990

Mahé Case: the Supreme Court rules that official-language minorities have the constitutional right to participate actively, in all provinces, in the governance and control of their children's education and the educational institutions their children attend.

Creation of Policy

Aug 30, 1994

The Federal government announces the creation of a policy aiming at encouraging the envolvement of federal institutions in the deveolpment of official language communities.

Report titled Implementation on Official Language Act

Jun 30, 1996

The Standing Joint Committee on Official Languages tabled a report titled Implementation of of Part VII of the Official Languages Act.

Teasury Board Secretariat

Oct 28, 1997

Treasury Board Secreariat becomes involved in the governance of the official language program.

Cordinate Issues of all Offical Language Issues

Apr 30, 2001

Review of Official Language Policies

Oct 28, 2002

Treasury board initiated a review of it's official language polices, which would be completed in 2005.

Action Plan Tabled

Mar 28, 2003

The Government tabled the Action Plan for Official Languages, which included an offical languages accountability and cordination framework.

Government Publishes

Nov 30, 2005

Bill S-3: An Act to amend the Official Lnguage Act (Promotion of English and French) received Royal Assent. It made Part VII of the OLA binding.

Cancellations

Sep 30, 2006

The government announced the cancellation of the Court Challenges Program and other federal programs that have an impact on the development of official-language minority communities,

Bernard Lord

Feb 29, 2008

Bernard Lord submitted the Report of Goverment of Canada Consultations and Linguistic Duality and Official Languages

Desrochers v. Canada

Feb 28, 2009

The Supreme Court of Canada rulings in the Desrochers case constitutes a major victory for linguistic equality

Implementation of Part VII of the Official Languages Act

Jun 30, 2010

The Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages tabled its final report, entitled Implementation of Part VII of the Official Languages Act: We Can Still Do Better.