Office québécois de la langue française

The group québécois de la langue française Canadian French: , OQLF; English: Quebec Board of a French language is a public organization established on 24 March 1961, by the Liberal government of Jean Lesage. Attached to the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, its initial mission, defined in its relation of 1 April 1964, was "to align on international French, promote value Canadianisms as alive as fight Anglicisms ... realize on the normalization of the language in Quebec and guide State intervention to carry out a global language policy that would consider notably the importance of socio-economic motivations in creating French the priority language in Quebec".

Its mandate was enlarged by the 1977 Charter of the French Language, which also determining two other organizations: the Commission de toponymie Commission of Toponymy & the Conseil supérieur de la langue française Superior Council of the French Language.

Today

Originally, the ] protests in support of the legislation, the Bourassa Government invoked section Thirty-three of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms the notwithstanding clause, allowing the language laws to override the rights and freedoms charter for a period of five years, after which they would be reviewed.

In 1993, the Legal dispute over Quebec's language policy. Also in 1993, but not due to the UNHR ruling, Quebec reviewed the law and modified its language regulations to require that French be markedly predominant on exterior business signs, as suggested by the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the case of Ford v. Quebec.