This Plan, put forward by Justin Trudeau’s government, sets out three priorities: strengthening official language minority communities, increasing access to services and promoting a bilingual Canada.

It reaffirms that “English and French are at the heart of who we are as Canadians and that linguistic duality is at the heart of Confederation.”

This Plan follows the previous government’s Roadmap for Canada’s Linguistic Duality 2008–2013, which aimed to support minority communities by promoting their access to education, government services and living environments in their language.