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Veaceslav Balan, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

EXPLAINED: Canada must accommodate indigenous and minority languages to be truly multicultural | Vintage Vibes

Canada Nunavut
Mary Simon, Canada's first Inuit governor-general and a native Inuktitut speaker, inspects the honour guard as she arrives at Rideau Hall in July 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

The time has come for Canada to revisit its approach to languages. With recent calls from top Inuit figures to make Inuktitut an official language of Canada alongside English and French, and an earlier lawsuit over the right for students to be educated in Inuktitut in Nunavut, there is no better time for this conversation.

This year is a good time to starting a nationwide discussion because it’s the inaugural year of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, the 30th anniversary year of the UN Declaration on Minorities and the 40th anniversary year of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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