Evidence of Social Problem Outcomes
1. The following video shows footage of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau speaking about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that was enacted into law in 1982. Section 23 of the Charter provided for equality of French and English language rights. The video also shows the Prime Minister and Queen Elizabeth II signing the Charter to make it official.
2. This is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms showing Section 23 on minority language rights. [9]
23. (1) Citizens of Canada
(a) whose first language learned and still understood is that of the English or French linguistic minority population of the province in which they reside, or
(b) who have received their primary school instruction in Canada in English or French and reside in a province where the language in which they received that instruction is the language of the English or French linguistic minority population of the province,
have the right to have their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in that language in that province.
(2) Citizens of Canada of whom any child has received or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in English or French in Canada, have the right to have all their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the same language.
(3) The right of citizens of Canada under subsections (1) and (2) to have their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the language of the English or French linguistic minority population of a province
(a) applies wherever in the province the number of children of citizens who have such a right is sufficient to warrant the provision to them out of public funds of minority language instruction; and
(b) includes, where the number of those children so warrants, the right to have them receive that instruction in minority language educational facilities provided out of public funds.
(a) whose first language learned and still understood is that of the English or French linguistic minority population of the province in which they reside, or
(b) who have received their primary school instruction in Canada in English or French and reside in a province where the language in which they received that instruction is the language of the English or French linguistic minority population of the province,
have the right to have their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in that language in that province.
(2) Citizens of Canada of whom any child has received or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in English or French in Canada, have the right to have all their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the same language.
(3) The right of citizens of Canada under subsections (1) and (2) to have their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the language of the English or French linguistic minority population of a province
(a) applies wherever in the province the number of children of citizens who have such a right is sufficient to warrant the provision to them out of public funds of minority language instruction; and
(b) includes, where the number of those children so warrants, the right to have them receive that instruction in minority language educational facilities provided out of public funds.
3. This is a photograph from the Winnipeg Free Press on March 17, 2010 of the CEO of the Societe Franco-Manitobaine, Daniel Boucher (right) and his colleagues at the SFM who planned a Provincial reunion (retrouvailles) in 2010 for the Province's Francophone community.
4. On March 22, 2012, an announcement was made on behalf of the Federal Government for the financial support for 13 organizations in the Francophone community in Manitoba. A total of $1.97 million will be invested over the next year to help develop organizations that help define the culture and identity of Francophone communities in Manitoba. The funding will support initiatives that promote the French language and strengthen the economy of the Province. [10]
Harper Government Invests in Manitoba’s Francophone Community