All made specific reference to inclusion of First Nations children and noted the need for appropriate ELCC programs for minority official language children, children with distinct cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and children with special needs.
Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms obliges the provinces to offer minority official language speakers education in their first language (Beach, Friendly, Ferns, Prabhu, & Forer, 2009, p. xxx).
Last Monday the Algerian presidency published plans to restrict serving presidents to two terms of office; it also wants to make Amazigh, spoken by the country's indigenous Berber minority, an official language.
Irish, now a minority but official language of the Republic of Ireland, was the vernacular of the Irish people for over two thousand years and was probably introduced by some sort of proto-Gaelic migration during the Iron Age, possibly earlier.
Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms only requires the federal government to finance education for Canada's official language minorities; that is, the anglophone minority in Quebec and francophone minorities across the rest of Canada.
One traveler demanded that Tamazight, the tongue of the Berber minority, be made an official language.
A number of these peripheral communes are classified as "communes with facilities" (French: communes à facilités; Flemish: faciliteitengemeenten), meaning that the Belgian constitution grants their residents the right to access government services in a minority language, notwithstanding the official language of the commune.
Air Canada is being singled out because when privatised in 1988, it retained the legal responsibility to provide bilingual service on flights starting, stopping or ending in Ontario, Quebec or New Brunswick, the three provinces where the official language minority represents more than 5% of the population.
The Croatian language is the official language, but minority languages are officially used in some local government units.
"There is no reason to believe that the Supreme Court of Canada would regard education in Aboriginal languages as less important for the distinctive cultures of First Nations than education in English and French for the distinctive cultures of Canada's official language minorities," he writes a 2006 paper.
Among its provisions, the constitutional revisions would make Berber -- a minority language in Morocco -- an official language alongside Arabic, and would explicitly grant the government executive powers.
