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Quebec legislations

The National Assembly of Québec is the elected house in the Parliament of Quebec.

  • Laws and Regulations
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  • Civil Code of Québec
  • Human Rights Tribunal
  • Québec Statutes and Regulations

Did you know Québec adopted a Charter of Human Rights in 1975?

  • 1975: The Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms

Did you read the Charter of the French Language (Bill 101)?

  • 1977: The Charter of the French language
  • Regulations adopted under the Charter of the French language
  • Infoguides on French language requirements (business, commerce, workplace)
  • Questions and answers about Québec's language policy
  • Brochure entitled "Living in French in Québec"
  • Documents on the Controversy Surrounding the Language of Commercial Signs in Québec (Bill 178)
  • The principles and means of Québec's language policy (long)
  • Read various opinions on the Charter of the French Language
  • Compare Quebec's language policies with that of other States (French)

Legal documents on Québec's political status

  • 1999: Rights and Prerogatives of the people of Québec - Bill 99
  • 1998: Clarity Act - Bill C-20
  • 1998: Opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Reference re to the Secession of Québec
  • 1995: The Sovereignty Bill

Famous Historical Bills

  • 1832: Act giving full political emancipation to Jews in Lower-Canada (PDF)

Federal legislations

  • 1982: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • 1968: Official Languages Act
  • Read on the language legislations adopted in Canada (French)

Laws against ethnic minorities passed by Ottawa

Note: Most of these laws were inspired by similar American or British laws. They were only abolished recently in the 1950s and 1960s.

  • 1952: Immigration law specifying "White if possible"
  • 1942: Law confiscating goods of Japanese Immigrants
  • 1927: National Security Law
  • 1923: Empire Settlement Act/Chinese Immigration Act
  • 1911: Law blocking the entry of Blacks and Asians
  • 1885: Law restricting Chinese Immigration

Laws Against Franco-Catholics in Canadian Provinces

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.

  • 1916: The Thornton Bill in Manitoba completely abolishes the teaching of French in the province
  • 1912: Ontario forbids the teaching of French above the first two grades of elementary school with the infamous Regulation 17.
  • 1890: Manitoba Premier Greenway diminishes the rights to French in school, abolishes its use in the Parliament and in the Courts
  • 1877: The Public School Act puts an end to the teaching of French in Prince-Edward-Island schools
  • 1871: The Common School Act imposes double taxation measures against French schools
  • 1864: Nova Scotia adopts a law on public schools which supresses all subsidies to Catholic and French language school.

Pre-confederation Laws against Catholics, Jews and French speakers

  • 1848: A Law re-establishing the legal use of the French language in the Parliament and in the Courts in passed.
  • 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.
  • 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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