Tristin Hopper
National Post, May 11, 2022
“Bill 96 requires employers to take “reasonable measures” to ensure that non-French languages are spoken in the workplace as little as humanly possible.”
The Quebec National Assembly is entering the final stretch of passing Bill 96, a controversial law set to dramatically expand the province’s ability to mandate the use of French both in public and private life.
Proponents of the bill have called it a critical tool to preserve Quebec as North America’s last majority French-speaking jurisdiction. Nevertheless, Indigenous leaders have denounced the bill as “cultural genocide” for imposing French on the province’s predominantly English-speaking First Nations communities. Physicians’ groups have warned it “could endanger people’s lives or have negative impacts on mental health if applied.” And last week, Quebec college students staged a mass walkout to protest the bill’s curbs on English-language education. Below, some of the more contested aspects of Bill 96.
Doctors would be forced to address patients in French
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