In an appraisal of official bilingualism, Matthew Hayday demonstrates that the language programs and policies initiated by the Trudeau government supported French-Canadian and Acadian minority communities. He argues that these policies enabled the development of minority language education systems and laid the foundations for the language rights contained in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Introduction : a linguistic divide, a crisis of Canadian unity31A century of language conflict in Canada162From royal commission to government policy, 1963-1970353Growing pains and intergovernmental squabbles, 1970-1976634Levesque's gambit fails : a new English Canadian consensus, 1976-19791005The constitutional debacle and the rise of language rights, 1979-19831286A new equilibrium : official-languages discourse and Canadian national identity168AppFederal funding of the official languages in education program187