Author: Clint Curtis

It requires all federal institutions to provide services in English or French on request. The Act was passed on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (established by Prime Minister Lester B. Official Languages Act (1969) Published Online February 7, 2006 Last Edited May 17, 2019 Which prime minister made Canada bilingual? […]

Alaska isn’t part of Canada because the US bought it from Russia in 1867. Before then, it was Russian territory while Britain controlled Canada. Even though it’s closer to the US than Canada, Russia decided to sell it to the USA because its old rivals, Great Britain, controlled Canada at that time. Why Canada did […]

Delegates agreed that Canada should pay down the colony’s debt, that the province should have a responsible government, and that a wagon road should be built to link British Columbia to the east. What was promised to BC if they joined Confederation? And so on 20 July 1871, British Columbia became the sixth province to […]

Alberta and Saskatchewan. 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join as the 8’th and 9’th provinces. Was Quebec forced to join Canada? ​Québec became one of the founding members of the Dominion of Canada on 1 July 1867 when it joined New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario in Confederation.Québec and Confederation. Published Online January 5, 2015 […]

Yes absolutely, You can choose french as your secondary language(Considering English as Primary language) and appear for TEF examination will give you more CRS score. Does learning French help in Canadian immigration? English or French language skills are very important to help you settle in Canada. You may choose to focus on learning or improving […]

To be accepted in the Skilled Worker Program and to enter the Express Entry pool, you need at least 67 points. If you get less than 67 points, you will have to start a new application and get a better score so that you can be eligible for the program. What score is CLB 7 […]

Bill C-11 amends the Broadcasting Act (the Act). The Act sets out the broadcasting policy for Canada, the role and powers of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the Commission) in regulating and supervising the broadcasting system, and the mandate for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. What is Canadian Bill C-11? Bill C-11 would give the […]

In general, employers must allow employees to speak their native language during work hours, unless it interferes with reasonable and necessary business operations. Is it unprofessional to speak a different language at work? § 1606.7(a) provides that a rule requiring employees to speak only English at all times in the workplace is a burdensome term […]

The system of official bilingualism has one overarching purpose: to ensure unobstructed access to either of Canada’s two official languages as actors interface with a broad spectrum of governmental activity. Why did Canada become officially bilingual? Under the leadership of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and his successor Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Canadian government implemented […]

Bilingualism in Canada is important because it shows how Canadians are passionate and motivated to work to keep and fix things that they find important, it is why all over Canada French is spoken, it is why Canada is still bilingual. Is bilingualism still relevant in Canada? Some 76 per cent of francophones there were […]