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1 Both government and the communities are taking a greater interest in horizontal governance (also known as shared governance), as demonstrated by the mid-term report on the implementation of the Action Plan for Official Languages (Privy Council Office, 2005c).
See also the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Official Languages for 2005-2006. [back]
2 A glossary of the main concepts used in discussing OMLC vitality appears at the end of this study. [back]
3 See also the 2005-2006 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Official Languages. [back]
4 Marmen and Corbeil (1999) note that "Language shift is an indicator of the dominance of a language and does not necessarily imply the abandonment of the mother tongue. It is therefore possible that the mother tongue is used in the home, but less often than the other language." [back]
5 See also the 2005-2006 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Official Languages. [back]
6 "It should be noted that the overall index of vitality gives preference to the linguistic indicator. Very low linguistic continuity will cancel out the effect of the other conditions (demographic or economic) even if they are favourable, whereas linguistic continuity that is not zero will be enough to ensure a degree of vitality, even if the other conditions are weak or zero" (Gilbert, 2005: 64). [back]
7 The Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM) maintains an online list of Canadian researchers working in its field of expertise: http://www.umoncton.ca/icrml/eng/bienvenue.html
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