Balancing acts and breakthroughs: Canada's journey with linguistic diversity, indigenous rights, and the UN Declaration to inspire public service innovation

Carolyn Laude · 2025 · Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

Summary. Canada's federal bilingual language policy, designed to reduce inequality, inadvertently disadvantages Indigenous public servants by pressuring them to learn colonial languages rather than preserving their own. The paper argues that Canada must actively protect Indigenous linguistic rights in public service to prevent forced assimilation, support cultural identity, and fulfill its commitments under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, despite existing legal recognition of these rights.

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  title   = {Balancing acts and breakthroughs: Canada's journey with linguistic diversity, indigenous rights, and the UN Declaration to inspire public service innovation},
  author  = {Carolyn Laude},
  journal = {Canadian Foreign Policy Journal},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.1080/11926422.2025.2458884},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2025.2458884}
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DOI

10.1080/11926422.2025.2458884

Countries

Canada

Regions

North America

Categories

policy, indigenous-innovation, general-innovation

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2026-08-01