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Canada's Francophone Minority Communities : Constitutional Renewal and the Winning of School Governance
ISBN: 9780773571280
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Law; Education;

By the late 1950s Canada's Francophone and Acadian minority communities were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transformed at an unprecedented rate. To survive, these beleaguered minority communities set out to conquer the challenges of rebuilding their provincial and national organizations, training a new generation of leaders, redefining their respective provincial and national identities, elaborating new political and constitutional policies and strategies for survival and expansion, and then defending and securing full implementation of these policies and strategies.

Michael D. Behiels is a professor of history and University Research Chair, Canadian Federalism and Constitutional Studies at the University of Ottawa.Michael D. Behiels is a professor in the Department of History, University of Ottawa.