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Quebec is "going on the offensive" to protect and promote French, Minister Jean-François Roberge said on Sunday as he presented a $603-million plan to counter what he described as the language's decline.

Quebec's language law reform is continuing to draw criticism and legal challenges from the province's English community as more of its provisions come into effect Thursday, exactly a year after it received royal assent.

The federal Treasury Board says it has no plans to expand a bonus — now paid to employees who speak English and French — to those who know an Indigenous language.

New census data showing a decline of French in Canada is "extremely troubling," the prime minister said on Friday, August 19, 2022, but he added that Ottawa still has a responsibility to protect linguistic minorities across the country — including in Quebec.

A growing number of new immigrants to Canada are bringing with them increasingly diverse languages, setting a record for the number of Canadians whose mother tongue is neither English nor French, new 2021 census data reveals.

New census data released on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, shows that French is in danger, according to Quebec's political class, but an anglophone rights group says it worries the data will be used to portray English speakers as a threat ahead of the fall provincial election.

A new survey finds more Canadians report a strong attachment to their primary language than to other markers of identity, including the country they call home.

Language and immigration politics were back at the forefront in Quebec’s national assembly last week, as Premier François Legault drew criticism for sounding the alarm over a decline in the number of people who speak French at home.

Quebec Premier François Legault sought to reassure anglophones that his government's language law reform, adopted on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, won't prevent people from accessing health care in English.

Indigenous leaders in Quebec say the government's French-language bill is destructive, paternalistic and could put the survival of First Nations languages at risk.

Mary Simon faced some tough questions in three languages on Monday, May 9, 2022, from students at the Jaanimmarik School in Kuujjuaq, a community in northern Quebec.

Events broadcast live on the prime minister's Facebook page must be accessible in French and English, according to the commissioner of official languages, who said the Privy Council Office failed to meet its obligations under Canada's language laws.

Quebec is proposing setting aside one day every year to celebrate the Canadian Francophonie as part of a three-year plan to reinforce the French language across the country.

Most people in a new Canada-wide survey say equal representation in government is important, but they don't support employers taking demographic characteristics into account in hiring and promotion decisions.