 | Language of the Skies: The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada Subjects: Air traffic control Bilingual -- Quebec (Province); Air traffic control Bilingual -- Political aspects -- Canada; Language policy -- Canada; Canada -- English-French relations; The Language of the Skies chronicles one of the most bitter crises in French-English relations in Canada: the bilingual air traffic control conflict which arose in the mid-1970s when francophone controllers and pilots attempted to use French, as well as English, in Québec aviation. Borins Sandford F. : Born in Toronto and educated at Harvard University, Sandford F. Borins has been a consultant for many government agencies and is now associate professor of business and public policy in the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University. |
