Canadian Speeches in Crisis Situation (1970-1995)

In the second half of the 20th century, Canada went through 5 crisis situations in 1970, 1976, 1980, 1990 and 1995. Each of these crisis dealt with the power struggles between the French-speaking and the English-speaking communities. The present corpus includes three types of speeches delivered during or around these crises : 1) Televised Addresses to the Nation ; 2) Parliamentary Speeches directly dealing with the crisis ; 3) Budget parliamentary Speeches delivered shortly before or after the crisis. The corpus includes a total of 17 speeches, provided in both English and French, for a total of 34 files. The files can be used with bilingual concordancer (such as Paraconc) or monolingual concordancer (such as WordSmith).