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ELAN 15: 2007

ELAN celebrated its third year with more firsts! While this stage was still early on in ELAN’s development, our strategic focus turned to questions about the diversity and vitality of our membership. We wanted to know how we could be more…

Official Documents

Canada Council Annual Report on Official Languages Act 2009

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Advocacy

Canada Council for the Arts – Notes from Meeting with Simon Brault 2016

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ELAN 15: 2007

Official Documents

Canada Council Annual Report on Official Languages Act 2009

[gview file="https://www.quebec-elan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Annual-Report-on-Results-of-Implementation-of-Section-41-of-the-Official-Languages-Act-2009.pdf"]

Advocacy

Canada Council for the Arts – Notes from Meeting with Simon Brault 2016

[gview file="https://www.quebec-elan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Meeting-with-Simon-Brault-2016.pdf"]

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.