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Québec laws
Québec laws are adopted in the National Assembly of Québec.
Did you know Québec adopted a Charter of Human Rights in 1975?
- 1990: Québec Human Rights Tribunal
- 1975: The Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
- Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission
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
- Read various opinions on the Charter of the French Language
- Compare Quebec's language policy to 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
Historical laws
- 1832: Act giving full political emancipation to Jews in Lower Canada (PDF)
Ottawa
Present day
- 1982: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- 1968: Official Languages Act
- Read more 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 They are no longer in force.
- 1952: 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 French in Canada
Note: These discriminatory laws against French speakers and Catholics are no longer in force today. However, the result of their application is sound: Québec is anglicized and Canada outside Québec is predominently and irreversibly English-speaking.
- 1916: The Thornton Bill in Manitoba completely abolishes the teaching of French in the province
- 1912: Province of Ontario: Circular of Instructions No. 17 and No. 18. Forbids the teaching of French above the first two grades of elementary school with the infamous Regulation 17.
- 1890: Province of Manitoba: Official Language Act banning French. Premier Greenway diminishes the rights to French in school, abolishes its use in the Parliament and in the Courts. Was declared anti-constitutional 90 years later!
- 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 Catholic schools
- 1864: Nova Scotia adopts a law on public schools which supresses all subsidies to Catholic and French language school.
- 1848: A Law re-establishing the legal use of the French language in the Parliament and in the Courts in passed.
- 1841: The Parliament of Great Britain adopts 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. The legal system is partly restored in 1774.