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Many anglos have nowhere else to turn for information but 2MoPaul. Celebrated local paper The Victory stopped publishing in the ’80s. Under Quebec’s latest French language protection law, Bill 96, the city’s own website is no longer allowed to post any English information because Two Mountains doesn’t have official bilingual status.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As a monolingual anglophone, I think many anglophones demonstrate low awareness of English-as-a-first-language privilege (which is how privilege operates) and of the negative effects of English-language hegemony. Ergo, their opinions on reasonable French language/culture protectionism are of little value. I think it's more privilege than hypocrisy because I don't think anglophones opposing French-language laws in Québec typically champion efforts to promote Indigenous or other not English or French languages

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