Opinion: Justin Trudeau’s phony project to modernize Canadian language policy
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in Toronto on Tuesday. By J.J. McCullough J.J. McCullough Email Bio Follow April 3 at 2:08 PM Canada’s “Lavscam” affair exposed the intersectional tensions of modern Canadian progressivism.
Officially kicking off last month, the government’s cross-country consultations on modernizing the languages law have a narrow mandate to only engage with representatives of “official languages communities.” In practice, this means conversation is invariably dominated by various Ottawa-subsidized French advocacy groups.
For one, if Ottawa is indeed serious about reconciling with its indigenous population and “decolonizing” its institutions, then why is there so little interest in making aboriginal languages part of the Canadian state? Why is Canada not making greater efforts to emulate New Zealand or South Africa, where indigenous languages not only enjoy official status, but are incorporated into things such as parliamentary debate and the national...
The integrity of left-wing politics in Canada, carried out through Liberal Party governance, is threatened by unavoidable power struggles within its coalition. When it comes to language, there is a looming danger that progressive voters in the English provinces will cease regarding Ottawa’s French language protections as the social justice corrective it was presented as in 1969, but rather as an anachronism of white privilege that arbitrarily denies linguistic accommodation to racial minorities.
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