AFNQL strikes wait and see attitude on Bill 96
May 19, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Quebec’s most recent attempt to strengthen the Charter of the French Language will seek to make the language even stronger in small businesses and in communities across Quebec, but respect for Indigenous languages is also paramount and must also be protected, said a Quebec Indigenous leader.
Bill 96, which was tabled in the National Assembly in Quebec City last Thursday, will seek to tighten access to English CEGEPs, limit the number of English courses taught at French CEGEPs, further limit non-French signage on commercial signs, allow shoppers to complain formally if they are not served in French, and allow Bill 101 to be extended to businesses with 25 to 49 employees. Previously small businesses with under 50 employees were exempt.
During the study of the Ministry of Health s appropriations this week in the National Assembly in Quebec City, it was found that colon cancer screenings are lagging far behind.
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The City of Montreal has changed its stand and announced a pedestrian walkway on the sciences campus of the Université de Montréal will be named after the late Parti Québécois cabinet minister Camille Laurin.
In a message posted on her Twitter account, Mayor Valérie Plante said she would follow the suggestion of the Société d’histoire d’Outremont and ask that the walkway be renamed after Laurin, known as the father of Quebec’s language charter.
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