"Canadian Bilingualism"

Good afternoon everybody!!! 

 As we said we are going to deal with the English language spoken in Canada, a North American country which extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

 Canada is a country where two official languages are spoken, one is French and the other one which we will study is Canadian English.

Both languages have got equality of status and equal rights and privilege in the country.The Official Languages Act in 1969 gave these languages equal status, rights and privileges in matters of federal jurisdiction, so we can consider Canada as an official bilingual country.

Among all Canadian cities, Quebec is the only Canadian province where French is the only official language at a provincial level, and to be considered so a monolingual French-speaking province.

 In 1982 the Constitution Act was signed and it was provided that the city of Quebec wouldn't have been considered under the list of "Canada's official bilingualism policy".The city of Quebec has been fighting for several years to achieve an independence-status from the same Canada,as they don't feel culturally an linguistically part of it.Canadian speakers can be divided into three groups depending on which there mother tongue is.

 Anglophones are Canadians whose mother tongue is English.

 Francophones are Canadians whose mother tongue is French.

 Allophones are Canadians whose mother tongue is any other language.

 I'll leave you a map where you can have a look at the different areas of Canada where bilingualism is more or less developed. 

Giulia