POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Maurice Duplessis, Regulation 17, Affirmative Action
11 Apr 2017
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Chapter 5: french canada and the quebec question. In the late 1960s, the official languages act made the federal government officially bilingual. In the 1970s and 1980s quebec introduced the french-only sign law and demanded to be recognized as a distinct society. The rest of canada felt that ottawa was giving preferential treatment to quebec in government policy. The size of quebec and french canada make them crucial in federal politics. The most reliable figures of french-english ethnicity are the figures for mother tongue. Those with english as their mother tongue (anglo phone) represent 57. 8% of the population or 18. 1 million people. Those with french as their mother tongue (francophone) represent 22. 1% of the population or 6. 9 million people. Those with another language as their mother tongue (allophone) represent 20. 1% of the population or. 85. 8% of canadian franco phone"s live in quebec. The highest rates of official bilingualism are among francophone outside quebec and anglophones inside quebec.
