• rivermonster@lemmy.world
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    Is it federally legal for to discriminate based on language? Don’t know, don’t live there, really curious, though.

    Or is this one if those things that have to be adjudicated in the courts?

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      The law states that English universities can take in whoever they want, 80% must finish their degree having reached conversational level in French otherwise English universities will lose part of their funding (when they’re the universities that are the richest in the province).

      That’s not language discrimination, that’s just bad journalism.

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        Thank you for clarifying. English is the official language of Canada, right? I know provences support French, but is it also an official language?

        For instance, in the U.S. there is no national language. Most government forms are provided in MANY languages and/or can be requested in them.

        I’m not sure in the US a university could require language profiency in a specific language. To be fair, though, I haven’t researched it. Maybe somebody can clarify if there are any federally funded ones that do?

        If Canadian universities require conversational French for 80% of grads but the only official language is English, then I wonder what the legal basis is for the requirement? If both English and Fench are official national languages, I understand how that would be the basis.

        Thanks for the conversation, I’m learning a lot.

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          Canada has 2 official languages, French and English. Provinces can have their own official language and so in Québec it is french

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            That makes LOTS more sense. Thanks so much!

            Could a province have a first people’s, or other language as their official, if they wanted? Or is the option just the two national official languages?