User:Mathieugp/drafts/Language policy of Quebec
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The language policy of Quebec is a language policy valorizing a single official language, French, that of the majority of the population, all the while recognizing a differentiated status to an English-speaking minority and 11 aboriginal nations.
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Following the territoriality principle in language planning, its various measures favour the propagation, development and quality of the French language, which is a minority language in Canada spoken by a numerical majority only in Quebec. The main objectives of the policy are to prevent language shifts from French to English, in the context where the English language is strongly valorized by various factors, to modify the hierarchy of languages in the public space so as to allow French to prevail over other languages, as does English in Canadian provinces where it is the language of the majority, and finally to ensure the development and vitality of French so it continues to be a language suitable to describe the North American reality.