09.09.2009 - 10.09.2009
September 9–10, 2009
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Presented by the Association for Canadian Studies in partnership with the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, the Council of the Network of Official Languages Champions, and the Department of Canadian Heritage
We are pleased to invite you to attend a symposium entitled 40 Years of Official Languages in Canada: Our History and the Path Ahead.
As September 7, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the implementation of the Official Languages Act, we thought this would be the ideal opportunity to hold a symposium where we could recount the past and discuss the future.
We have developed a program that brings together Canadians who possess a keen knowledge of linguistic duality and how it has shaped our society, our institutions and our future. Panel discussions will give symposium delegates the opportunity to hear expert viewpoints on Canada’s historical path since the Act was adopted, the outlook for official language minority communities as we move forward and, within a global economic context, the future direction of Canada’s linguistic duality.
Also to mark this significant anniversary, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages will launch an exhibition of editorial cartoons portraying important, language-related moments in history. Déjà Vu: 40 Years of Language and Laughter in Political Cartoons includes cartoons that have appeared in Canadian English-language and French-language newspapers from 1969 to the present.