Quebec and Catalonia

The Charter of the French language and the language policy of Québec constituted a reference model for Catalonia. When Catalonia, in 1980, following the re-establishment of its self-government institutions, undertook its first actions to recover control over the Catalonian language and the parliamentary process needed to elaborate the Llei de Normalització Lingüística in 1983, it paid close attention to the Québec linguistic model, both at the legislative and the political levels.

The collaboration between the Direcció General de Política Lingüística de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Québec's Office de la langue française has been permanent and important. We have shared numerous strategies, which, despite their differences and their necessary adaptation to contextual circumstances, had numerous points in common.

The influence of the Charter of the French language of Québec on the Llei de Normalització Lingüística (Law 7/1983), and the Catalonian regulation being applied, is visible notably through the echo which articles 2 to 6 of the Charter of the French language, which pertain to the fundamental linguistic rights, have found as part of article 2 of the Catalonian legislation of 1983.

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