CANADA’S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES Policy Jack Jedwab Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) December 15, 2017

Survey Methodology Leger Marketing conducted a national survey for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration with a national sample 2,344 Canadians, including an oversample of 310 respondents identifying as Aboriginal/First Nations. The survey was conducted November 14-21, 2017 via a web panel with a probabilistic margin of error equal to 2.5 points, 19 times out of 20 (95% C.I.)

Majority surveyed hold positive views of Canada’s Official Languages Policy, particularly Canadians living in the Atlantic provinces

Majority surveyed hold positive views of Canada’s Official Languages Policy, particularly French in the Rest of Canada and Allophones

Those in favour of Canada’s Official Languages Policy hold more positive views toward immigrants in Canada

Those in favour of Canada’s Official Languages Policy hold more positive views toward Aboriginals in Canada

Those in favour of Canada’s Official Languages Policy hold more positive views toward Black persons in Canada

Those in favour of Canada’s Official Languages Policy also hold positive views of Canada’s Multiculturalism Policy

64% of Canadians who are very worried about losing their language and culture hold positive views of Canada’s Official Languages Policy 68% of Canadians very worried about the next gen abandoning their language and culture hold positive views of Canada’s Official Languages Policy