Publications and Research

• The Official Languages Research and Dissemination Program
  
  
• Plan 2013 - Strategies for a National Approach in Second Language Education
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Official Languages Annual Reports

• Annual Report 2003-2004
  Volume 1
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• Annual Report 2003-2004
  Volume 2
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• Annual Report 2002-2003
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• Annual Report 2001-2002
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• Annual Report 2000-2001
• Annual Report 1999-2000
• Annual Report 1998-1999
• Annual Report 1996-1997 and 1997-1998
• Annual Report 1995-1996 (currently pdf only)
• Annual Report 1994-1995 (currently pdf only)

New Canadian Perspectives

This multidisciplinary research series offers current information and many reference sources on all aspects of official languages in Canada.

• Community Vitality, Community Confidence Official Languages Research Forum
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• Annotated Language Laws of Canada (currently pdf only)
• The Canadian Experience in the Teaching of Official Languages
• Economic Approaches to Language and Bilingualism
• Exploring the Economics of Language
• Francophone Minorities : Assimilation and Community Vitality (2nd Edition)
• Francophone Minorities: Assimilation and Community Vitality
• Francophones in Canada: A Community of Interests
• Languages in Canada: Census 2001
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• Languages in Canada: Census 96 (currently pdf only)
• Official Languages and the Economy
• Official Languages in Canada: Changing the Language Landscape
• A Profile of the Providers of Training in English or French as a Second Language
• The Socio-economic Vitality of Official Language Communities
• Status Report: Minority-Language Education Rights (layout in html - English version - all wonky)

Making Your Organization Bilingual
This website provides tools and strategies to organizations who wish to offer services in the two official languages. It illustrates the experience of organizations which have participated in the Co-operation with the Voluntary Sector Program of the Official Languages Support Programs Branch.

Linguistic Policy

Official Languages: Myths and Realities

The Government of Canada is committed to its official languages policy and to ensuring that its application is both fair and sensible. This booklet is intended to help answer questions about federal languages policy - questions such as: what an official language is; why we have two official languages; how much bilingualism costs and what it all means to Canadians. (1998) 32 pgs.

Official Languages Act: In Brief (currently pdf only)
A booklet explaining the purpose and provisions of the 1988 Official Languages Act, which reflects and implements the language rights recognized by the Constitution and, in particular, by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. - Bilingual (1993) 11 pgs.

Interdepartmental Coordination

Bulletin 41-42
A quarterly newsletter addressed to the official-language minority communities in Canada and to those federal public servants in every region who have a role to play in the implementation of Sections 41 and 42 of the Official Languages Act (two issues produced in 1995). - Bilingual

Implementation of sections 41 and 42 of the Official Languages Act
The action plan of the Department of Canadian Heritage contains various measures that could further help the development and enhance the vitality of official-language minority communities and promote linguistic duality.

Canadian Heritage Actions Plan

• Action Plan 2002-2005
• Action Plan 1999-2002
• Action Plan 1998-1999 (currently pdf only)
• Action Plan 1997-1999 (currently pdf only)
• Action Plan 1996-1999

Press Releases

• Official Languages

Related Information

• Study on the Conditions for Success of the Centres scolaires et communautaires