Acfas 2025 : Navigating Section 23: Challenges & Opportunities, Minority Language Educational Rights

Описание: This video features lectures from the QUESCREN symposium "Section 23 and the Legal Challenges Concerning English-Language Education in Quebec" at the 2025 Acfas conference. See below for descriptions and speakers.
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Moderator: Stéphanie Chouinard, Royal Military College of Canada
Speaker: Stephen Thompson, MEPEC

Navigating Section 23: Challenges and Opportunities for Minority Language Educational Rights in English-Speaking Quebec

Within Canada's constitutional fabric, the narrative of French and English minority rights tells a story of compromise, cultural preservation, and evolving identities. Among these is the experience of English-speaking Quebec, a community striving to safeguard its language and culture within a French-speaking province. This is supported by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms' minority language educational rights. In 2023, I presented a paper at QUESCREN's Education and Vitality Forum titled *"English-speaking Quebec and Minority Language Educational Rights: A Lost Opportunity?" The paper examines the unique journey of this minority community, exploring the complexities and challenges of fully embracing these rights.

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Recorded on May 9, 2025, at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) as part of the 2025 Acfas conference. Acfas is a non-profit organization that contributes to the advancement of science in Quebec, in the French-speaking Canadian community, and in the international French-speaking community. www.acfas.ca

QUESCREN provides opportunities to promote understanding of Quebec's English-speaking communities and strengthen their vitality through research, knowledge mobilization, networking, and awareness-raising activities. Quebec's English-speaking community is an official language minority community in Canada. https://quescren.ca/

This conference is made possible thanks to financial support from the Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d'expression anglaise and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. QUESCREN also receives funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage and Concordia University.

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