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Bill 96: Group seeking injunction against Quebec's French-language law (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
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A group representing Quebec's English-speaking community is seeking an injunction with the court to challenge the province's controversial French-language law known as Bill 96, CTV News has learned.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago
  1. First and foremost, the legal declaration that Quebec is a unilingual province. We're a bilingual country. Maybe we should forbid offering services in French in the rest of the country.
  2. The cap on English-language CEGEPs. "Sorry, but we've hit our limit for your kind of people."
  3. Judges no longer need to be fluent in anything other than French. How does that allow for trials in English? (And even if you can find a bilingual judge, getting them to hear the case will be onerous.)
  4. Businesses with 25 or more employees will be legally required to operate in French - complete with certificates, committees, and inspections. God help you if your employees start talking to each other in their native language!
  5. Refugees and immigrants will be denied access to services in any other languages after six months.

While it's true that most of the country doesn't have a requirement to offer services in both official languages, there's only one province that is trying to actively and aggressively forbid it. That's not protectionism, that's punishment.