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| ==Quebec legislations==
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| ''The National Assembly of Québec is the elected house in the Parliament of Quebec.''
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| * Laws and Regulations
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| * Search Laws & Regulations
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| * Civil Code of Québec
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| * Human Rights Tribunal
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| * Québec Statutes and Regulations
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| ''Did you know Québec adopted a Charter of Human Rights in 1975?''
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| * 1975: The Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
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| === Language management policy ===
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| ''Did you read the Charter of the French Language (Bill 101)?''
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| * 1977: The Charter of the French language
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| * Regulations adopted under the Charter of the French language
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| * Infoguides on French language requirements (business, commerce, workplace)
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| * Questions and answers about Québec's language policy
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| * Brochure entitled "Living in French in Québec"
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| * Documents on the Controversy Surrounding the Language of Commercial Signs in Québec (Bill 178)
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| * The principles and means of Québec's language policy (long)
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| * Read various opinions on the Charter of the French Language
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| * Compare Quebec's language policies with that of other States (French)
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| ===Bills and Laws on Québec's political status===
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| * 1999: Rights and Prerogatives of the people of Québec - Bill 99
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| * 1998: Clarity Act - Bill C-20
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| * 1998: Opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Reference re to the Secession of Québec
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| * 1995: The Sovereignty Bill
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| ==Historical laws==
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| * 1832: Act giving full political emancipation to Jews in Lower-Canada (PDF)
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| ==Federal legislations==
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| * 1982: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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| * 1968: Official Languages Act
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| * Read on the language legislations adopted in Canada (French)
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| ===Laws against ethnic minorities passed by Ottawa===
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| Note: ''Most of these laws were inspired by similar American or British laws. They were only abolished recently in the 1950s and 1960s.''
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| * 1952: Immigration law specifying "White if possible"
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| * 1942: Law confiscating goods of Japanese Immigrants
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| * 1927: National Security Law
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| * 1923: Empire Settlement Act/Chinese Immigration Act
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| * 1911: Law blocking the entry of Blacks and Asians
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| * 1885: Law restricting Chinese Immigration
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| * 1876: Indian Act
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| * 1867: The British North America Act makes Indian relations a federal jurisdiction
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| ===Laws Against Franco-Catholics in Canadian Provinces===
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| Note: It took the civil movement of the 1960s to abolish these discriminatory laws against French speakers and Catholics. After almost a century of enforcement, the result of the long application of these laws are sound: Canada outside Québec is predominently and irreversibly English-speaking and Quebec is heavily anglicized in spite being in the majority French-speaking.
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| * 1916: The Thornton Bill in Manitoba completely abolishes the teaching of French in the province
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| * 1912: Ontario forbids the teaching of French above the first two grades of elementary school with the infamous Regulation 17.
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| * 1890: Manitoba Premier Greenway diminishes the rights to French in school, abolishes its use in the Parliament and in the Courts
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| * 1877: The Public School Act puts an end to the teaching of French in Prince-Edward-Island schools
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| * 1871: The Common School Act imposes double taxation measures against French schools
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| * 1864: Nova Scotia adopts a law on public schools which supresses all subsidies to Catholic and French language school.
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| ===Pre-confederation Laws against Catholics, Jews and French speakers===
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| * 1848: A Law re-establishing the legal use of the French language in the Parliament and in the Courts in passed.
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| * 1841: London votes the Union Act which bans French in the Parliament, Courts and all other governmental bodies. The French language is explicitly banned in a constitutional text of law for the first time in History.
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| * 1763: The Royal Proclamation bans French Civil Law in the Province of Quebec (formerly Le Canada, the heart of New-France)
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