Connecting power to protection: The political bases of language commissioners in Canada
Abstract This article explores the connection between the strength of Canadian federal, provincial and territorial language regimes and the political power of the underlying language group. Although such regimes should ideally be constructed to defend languages that are vulnerable, they are more oft...
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crwiley:10.1111/capa.12311 2024-06-02T08:12:24+00:00 Connecting power to protection: The political bases of language commissioners in Canada McDougall, Andrew 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/capa.12311 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/capa.12311 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/capa.12311 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Canadian Public Administration volume 62, issue 1, page 77-95 ISSN 0008-4840 1754-7121 journal-article 2019 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12311 2024-05-03T10:59:00Z Abstract This article explores the connection between the strength of Canadian federal, provincial and territorial language regimes and the political power of the underlying language group. Although such regimes should ideally be constructed to defend languages that are vulnerable, they are more often based on the ability of a language group to organize politically to win the laws they want. Thus, many small linguistic groups, such as those in Nunavut, benefit from very strong protections given their demographic weight in the territory, while there are weaker protections for the Franco‐Ontarians, who are only a small minority in their province. Ultimately power matters a great deal in Canada when it comes to linguistic protection. Article in Journal/Newspaper Nunavut Wiley Online Library Canada Nunavut Canadian Public Administration 62 1 77 95 |
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Abstract This article explores the connection between the strength of Canadian federal, provincial and territorial language regimes and the political power of the underlying language group. Although such regimes should ideally be constructed to defend languages that are vulnerable, they are more often based on the ability of a language group to organize politically to win the laws they want. Thus, many small linguistic groups, such as those in Nunavut, benefit from very strong protections given their demographic weight in the territory, while there are weaker protections for the Franco‐Ontarians, who are only a small minority in their province. Ultimately power matters a great deal in Canada when it comes to linguistic protection. |
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