Bill 96

Controversial bill passed by a vote of 78-29, with the opposition Liberals and Parti Quebecois opposing it.

Bill 96, the provincial government's controversial legislation aimed at protecting the French language in Quebec, has been adopted in the National Assembly.

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Quebec's majority government held a vote on its language bill and passed the contentious piece of legislation into law.

The revamped Charter allows the OQLF to conduct searches without a warrant. The law was adopted at roughly 3:05 p.m. ET. In a statement, Jennings said "Bill 96 is the most significant derogation of human rights in the history of Quebec and Canada." Pascal Bérubé, the PQ's language critic, said his party would have preferred to see the law extend the Charter of the French language to CEGEPS, meaning francophones and the children of people who did not attend English school would have to attend CEGEP in French. Jolin-Barrette called the law the beginning of a revitalized effort to boost the French language in the province. The bill is large in scope, limiting the use of English in the courts and public services and imposing tougher language requirements on small businesses and municipalities.

The bill unilaterally amends the Canadian Constitution to insert text declaring that Quebec is a nation and that French is the common language of all Quebecers.

Bill 96 treats the anglophone community as a folkloric group, a vestige of a bygone era in history. The anglophone community of Quebec is put in the position of being obligated to suppress its own public character in favour of aiding the majority to sustain its French-language identity. It is as if decades of trying to amend the Canadian Constitution to accommodate Quebec were wasted, when a mere unilateral amendment can suffice. The objective of Bill 96 is to make the French language the public language of Quebec, the language of work, leisure, culture, integration and public discourse. For the first time, there will be a hierarchy of rights instead of the traditional level playing field and balancing between diverse human freedoms. This is because Bill 96 is greater than the sum of its parts.

Bill 96, the expanded language law proposed by the Legault government, was adopted by the National Assembly Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 78-29.

Bills 21 and 96 together are a notice by the Quebec government that whenever Quebec policies are in place, the Charter [of Rights and Freedoms] becomes a mere suggestion and it doesn't have to be followed. A protest calling on the federal government to disallow Bill 96 will be held at the cenotaph at Girouard Park in NDG, at Sherbrooke and Girouard, 1 p.m. Sunday May 29. Amongst other provisions, Bill 96 will force new immigrants to communicate in French with the Quebec government six months after they arrive, enable Quebec's Justice Minister to decide how many judges must be bilingual, cap enrollment levels at English CEGEPS, force unilingual English students to take French classes, and give language inspectors the right to conduct searches and seizures without a warrant.

The Prime Minister said his job is to protect official-language minorities, but critics say the bill will limit access to health care, justice, ...

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Premier insists the majority of Quebecers agree with the legislation and anglophones think French "is a plus," not a minus.

If that happened, allophones and francophones would not be eligible to attend. “This bill will not reverse the decline of French in Quebec and we propose much stronger measures that would. “I no longer recognize the PQ. They are abandoning the French language for purely partisan calculations. Ottawa has already said no to Quebec’s requests. The lone MNA for the Conservative Party of Quebec, Claire Samson, also voted against the bill. Article content The Liberals and PQ opposed the bill for completely different reasons. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content

Quebec Premier François Legault said he aims to strengthen the place of Quebec's official language amidst what he calls its decline, but anglophones, ...

PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said Bill 96 would not stop the decline of French in Quebec. “It’s as if we cannot be considered Quebeckers, real Quebeckers. That may be overstating the case, but some aspects of this bill do encourage that kind of thinking.” English speakers have been further stung in recent months by the provincial government’s cancellation of a planned expansion of Montreal’s Dawson College and Mr. Legault’s refusal to participate in an English-language debate during the upcoming provincial election campaign. “The job of the federal government under my watch is to always be there to protect minorities across this country, particularly official languages minorities,” Mr. Trudeau told a news conference. Many anglophones, immigrants and Indigenous people in the province, meanwhile, say they feel targeted by a law that undermines their rights. The passage of the law will also have implications for the rest of Canada, as Bill 96 claims to unilaterally amend the Canadian Constitution to assert that Quebeckers “form a nation” and that French is the “common language of the Quebec nation.” The province’s right to amend the Constitution this way, and the implications of its amendments, are contested by some legal scholars.