News Analysis
The province of Quebec’s National Assembly adopted Bill 96 to protect the French language on May 24. But critics on both sides of the language debate are displeased, with Anglophones considering it a violation of their rights and Quebec separatists saying it doesn’t go far enough.
Bill 96 updates Quebec’s French charter and modifies a number of laws, which will reinforce the use of the French language in education, workplaces, the production of official documents, and how new immigrants will receive services.
The Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) and the Parti Québécois (PQ), who are fundamentally opposed to each other on the core issue of Quebec’s place within Canada, both sided against the governing Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) over the bill, but for very different reasons….