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Aboriginal Performance Cultures and Language Revitalization: Foundations, Discontinuities, and Possibilities
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In: Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology (2016)
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Two “Official” Languages of Work: Explaining the Persistence of Inequitable Access to French as a Language of Work in the Canadian Federal Public Service
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Two “Official” Languages of Work: Explaining the Persistence of Inequitable Access to French as a Language of Work in the Canadian Federal Public Service ...
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Canada’s official languages policy makes English and French the country’s official languages in federal institutions. The policy has succeeded in fostering equitable representation of both official languages groups in the federal public service and has improved capacities for the public service to serve the citizenry in its official language of choice. It is a puzzle however, that despite these advances, the Canadian federal public service continues to operate predominantly in English when both official languages on paper are equal languages of work. To explore this puzzle this dissertation asks: why, despite the promise of the Official Languages Act (OLA) 1969 for choice in language of work and the OLA 1988 that made the choice a claimable right, is there inequitable access to French as a language of work in the federal public service? Framed through a historical institutionalist approach and layering, this project analyzes the implementation of the official languages program in the federal public service ...
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Bilingualism; Canadian federal public service; Institutional change; Institutionalism; Language of work; Language policy; Language rights; Official Languages; Policy implementation
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3684 http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/30984
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