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| Introduction | |
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| The relation between language and politics | |
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| General trends in the language issue | |
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| The six phases of a movement | |
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| From religion to language: 1539-1848 | |
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| The king's language and faith | |
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| Ordinance of Villers-Cotter�ts on the Administration of Justice (August 1539) | |
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| Emergence of a new language issue | |
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| Nationalizing language | |
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| The 92 Resolutions (1834) | |
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| The first language tremors: The school crises in Canada, 1848-1927 | |
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| Prohibiting in a context of fear | |
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| Regulation 17: Circular of Instruction No. 17 for Ontario Separate Schools for the School Year 1912-1913 | |
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| Quebec: denouncing and enacting | |
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| The LaVergne Law (1910)-An Act to amend the Civil Code, respecting contracts made with public utility companies | |
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| Showing solidarity to improve action | |
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| All quiet on the front: From the repeal of Regulation 17 to the Laurendeau-Dunton Commission, 1927-63 | |
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| Questions of identity and language | |
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| Where were governments through all of this? | |
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| An Act to amend the Civil Service Act (1938) | |
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| Turmoil and new questioning | |
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| The Impertinences of Brother Anonymous (1959) | |
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| Action-reaction: Commissions of inquiry and agitation, 1963-69 | |
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| Speaking out | |
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| Channelling the citizens' voices | |
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| Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963) | |
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| Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of the French Language and the Language Rights of Francophones (1968) | |
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| Urging the state to act | |
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| Action: Language laws, 1969-82 | |
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| Ottawa's solution: institutional bilingualism | |
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| Canada's Official Languages Act (1968-69) | |
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| Quebec's common good: from freedom of choice to unilingualism | |
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| Charter of the French Language (1977) | |
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| The multiple provincial language policies | |
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| Law and language since 1982 | |
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| Law as the new language environment | |
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| Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) | |
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| Reference re Secession of Quebec (1998) | |
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| An Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Qu�bec people and the Qu�bec State, called Bill 99 (2000) | |
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| Mapping the interpretations of the Charter | |
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| The vitality of minority communities and Aboriginal peoples | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| General trends in the language issue | |
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| How to live together: the weight of citizens' actions | |
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| The duties of living together: the permanency of law and norms | |
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| The will to live together: language between market and memory | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |