Conservative
- Work with the Québec government to apply the French Language Charter to federally-regulated businesses operating in Québec.
- Table legislation within 100 days to modernise the Official Languages Act.
- Create a new $30M/year budgetary envelope to provide federal funding to minority francophone post-secondary institutions.
- Increase support for francophone primary & elementary education.
• Work with the Government of Québec to apply the French Language Charter to federally regulated businesses operating in Québec.
• Table, within our first 100 days in government, legislation modernizing the Official Languages Act.
° The Liberals haven’t acted in six years, and Canada’s francophone minorities have waited long enough.
° The new legislation will:
- Increase the powers of the Official Languages Commissioner.
- Give Treasury Board the authority and responsibility for ensuring the application of the Act across federal departments.
- Create an Official Languages administrative tribunal to deal with citizen complaints.
- Include stronger positive obligations in Part VII of the Act.
- Create more robust mechanisms for the consultation of Official Language minorities.
• Create a new $30 million per year budgetary envelope to provide federal funding to minority francophone post-secondary institutions such as Université de Moncton, the University of Alberta’s Campus Saint-Jean, and the Ontario French University and participate significantly in their future financing, in collaboration with the provinces.
• Increase support for francophone primary and elementary education via the Official Languages in Education Program to reflect demographic growth in the minority francophone student population.
• Increase francophone immigration outside Québec to ensure that the demographic weight of francophone minorities will be maintained.
• Adopt an official French version of the 1867 British North America Act, for which only the English version currently has official status.
— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18