Thursday, 25 June 2026 | 18:30 | York University and virtually via Zoom
Robarts Keynote at the ICCS with Eve Haque (York University)
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This presentation will examine the disjuncture between First Nations and Métis support for Canada’s Indigenous Languages Act (2019) and Inuit opposition to the legislation. Parliamentary debates, committee hearings, and proposed amendments on Bill C-91—particularly the rejected Inuit-specific provisions for Inuktut across Nunangut—reveal how a dual white settler coloniality operates through a racialized linguistic hierarchy that persistently subordinates Indigenous languages despite decades of Indigenous advocacy and rhetorical state commitments to reconciliation.
Eve Haque is Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. Her research and teaching interests include multiculturalism, white settler colonialism and language policy. She is also the author of Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework: Language, Race and Belonging in Canada (University of Toronto Press).
The lecture is presented by the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University and the International Council for Canadian Studies.
For more information: iccsciec[at]yorku.ca