In June 2008, the Government of Canada published the Roadmap for Canada’s Linguistic Duality 2008­2013: Acting for the Future. Within the framework of this initiative, Public Works and Government Services Canada mandated the Translation Bureau of the Government of Canada to design and put online a language portal bringing all of Canada’s linguistic resources together in a single site.

Now the Language Portal of Canada is online. Through this portal, you can finally obtain access free of charge to TERMIUM®, the Government of Canada’s linguistic and terminology data bank. With TERMIUM® finding the right words has just become easier with more than 3,900,000 terms of which some 200 000 are in Spanish. It also contains a vast array of language tools, a magazine component offering language­related articles and updates, exercises dealing with problem words in French and English, and a directory of useful links to resources and organizations active in the language field.

 www.ourlanguages.gc.ca