Joint announcement with the Federal Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, on the co-development of an Indigenous Languages Act – legislation to ‘revitalize, recover, preserve, protect, maintain and promote’ First Nations languages
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Call to Action # 14: Language and Culture (13-17)
Announcement on co-development of an Indigenous Languages Act
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