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Please browse the gallery below to discover images, videos, and audio from the exhibition "BADO: The Francophonie Through Pencil Strokes." Click on an image to see an enlarged version with a description, or to play the video or audio clip.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: The Official Languages Act – from the disco years Illustration: A man dressed in disco fashion, looking frustrated, thinkin it’s about time things changed.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Modernizing the Official Languages Act Illustration: Drawing of the federal Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages, Mélanie Joly, holding an old diskette, saying: don’t worry, we have it all on a diskette!.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Official languages: French would be strengthened in Quebec Illustration: A couple in bed. The woman is asleep under all the blankets. The man lies awake, without any blankets, thinking: I hope it'll work out for others.
Title: Updating the Official Languages Act Illustration: A man seated in front of a 1980s-style computer, exclaiming: we’ve found the original diskette!.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Official language assistance. Illustration: Two men sitting on the sidewalk begging passersby for money. The man on the left, poor and francophone, is holding a cap with a few coins. The man on the right, rich and anglophone, is holding a top hat filled with bank notes.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Modernizing the Official Languages Act Illustration: A man holding his iPhone, standing in front of a copy of the Official Languages Act hanging on the wall, thinking: I can’t download it.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: According to the Federal Court, the Official Languages Act imposes no specific obligations on federal institutions Illustration: A man carrying two suitcases, standing in front of a sign picturing an agent in lieu of a Canadian government French-language service booth.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Ottawa will spend $500 million in its action plan for official languages Illustration: A man seated in front of a massive feast, thinking: better get used to this.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Consultations on official languages: 22 round tables, 90 briefs and 6,400 online comments later Illustration: Drawing of a forklift carrying several tables, binders and piles of paper, the operator commenting: sure hope something will remain.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Official languages Illustration: Drawing of Stéphane Dion, then Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, musing: I would bring it up in Cabinet, but we don’t have any interpreters!.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Saturday, May 6, 2023, 5 a.m. ET Illustration: Drawing of North America seen from space, with a comment bubble from the other side of the Atlantic: I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God. Unlike in the rest of Canada, all the lights are out in Quebec.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Illustration: Two drawings of a man and a teen chatting while reading their newspapers. The man glances at the teen, asking him why he’s reading an English newspaper. The teen answers that’s because, according to the English, French is not in danger.