POLI 371 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cultural Assimilation, Ethnocentrism, High Standard Manufacturing Company
19 Jan 2016
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Quebec and the constitutional problem (introduction by john t. saywell) Mandate given to the constitution committee of the quebec legislative assembly on. May 22, 1963: to determine the objectives that should be pursued by french canada in the revision of the canadian constitution, and the best means of attaining them. The quebec legislature has no authority to speak on behalf of french canada (which includes 850,000 canadians whose mother tongue is french and who live outside of. Quebec and over whom the legislature has no jurisdiction, and quebec also includes 1 million people whose mother tongue is not french) Saywell: canada must become a truly bilingual country in which the linguistic majority stops behaving as if it held special and exclusive rights, and accepts the country"s federal nature with all its implications. Yet, a constitution by itself cannot provide adequate protection against the influence exerted by the anglo-saxon majority in na.
