POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mandatory Retirement, Adversarial System, Unanimous Consent
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Slide: impact of the french fact on canadian politics- case studies going to speak about some of the implications of that as well as the historical background to that then we were going to talk about some case studies. Official languages act in the constitution it said: Constitution act stipulate that english and french would be used in. Official languages act, 1969 mandated bilingualism in federal institutions. Parliament, laws, and courts must be in english & french. Federal bureaucrats have right to work in official language of their choice. Slide: are you personally in favour of bilingualism for all of canada? public opinion polling. [graph] % respondents, by language spoken at home. 56 % yes majority is in support of bilingualism. 9 % no a second sort of case study of this french fact playing out in canadian politics deals with the appointment of governors general.
