C-11 - Charter of the French language

Section 29.11 Disposition versions

2022-06-01

29.11. The language policy of the State shall guide the agencies of the civil administration to which it applies in the fulfilment of the obligations incumbent on them under section 13.1.

For that purpose, the policy shall contain provisions concerning, in particular, the following subjects:

(1)  measures that, in the Minister’s opinion, may be taken by an agency to meet those obligations, including

(a)  the establishment of rules according to which an agency decides whether to exercise the option to use a language other than French, where this Act grants the agency such an option;

(b)  the communication to an agency’s personnel members of the obligations incumbent on them under this Act and the fundamental language rights conferred on them by the Act, for instance through examples illustrating the scope of those obligations and rights;

(c)  the implementation of means to control the quality of the French used within an agency;

(d)  the identification of the opportunities that an agency can seize, in the normal course of its activities, to promote the influence of French abroad and elsewhere in Canada, in particular with francophone and Acadian communities;

(e)  the dissemination of the content of the policy among an agency’s personnel members and suppliers, among recipients of a subsidy or other form of financial assistance and among the other members of the public who receive or could receive the agency’s services; and

(f)  the implementation of a French-language environment, in particular with regard to vocal music and to the priority to be given to Québec cultural works;

(2)  information concerning the application of this Act, including information that relates to the implementation of measures set out in the policy and that must appear in the annual report of an agency required to file such a report;

(3)  examples illustrating how an agency of the civil administration may use a language other than French where it has the option to do so under this Act; and

(4)  acts and omissions that, in the Minister’s opinion, could prevent an agency from fulfilling an obligation incumbent on it under section 13.1, in particular in the use of social media and information and communications technologies.

2022, c. 14, s. 19.