Bill 96 | CAQ and QS will vote against PQ and PLQ

(Quebec) Dice rolled in: The Legault government can count on the support of the Quebec Solitaire to pass Bill 96, an amendment to the French language charter, but the Liberal Party of Quebec and the party oppose the Quebec vote.

Hugo Pylon Laros
Press

Amendment of Act 101, passed in Parliament on Tuesday, “failed”, ending without appeal by PQ MP Pascal Bérubé. “In the face of history, in the face of the debate we have, we firmly believe this is a very responsible solution,” he said on Tuesday.

Mr. According to Perubi, a historical parallel must be drawn between Bill 96, the Minister in charge of the French language, Simon Joel-Barrett, and Bill 19, adopted in 1974 under Bill 22 of the Liberals of Robert Bauerssa. Administration, services and work.

In both cases, according to PQ, advances were not enough to reverse the French fall. A third opposition group in the National Assembly wants Bill 101 to be applied to the CEGEPs (while the Anglophone bans the use of phonographs and allophones in the public college network), completely imposing the francophone economic settlement and quantifying the consequences. Its reform and tightens the requirements for obtaining a bilingual status as a municipality.

“According to all the experts asked by the parliamentary committee, Bill 96 will not change the fall of the French language. Therefore, like our founders, we have a responsibility to set the record straight,” said PQ President Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.

In this regard, PQ recalls the testimony of demographers, who, during the public hearings of the bill, confirmed that the measures put forward by the government could not reverse the decline. For example there is expert discussion in this matter about data to be compared in public speaking language such as home spoken language or work.

Progress, begs QS

On the Quebec solidaire side, the party’s parliamentary speaker, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, said on Tuesday that it would vote on Bill 96 as the government makes progress on language reform. However, Solidaires promises to deactivate the six-month period imposed by Quebec on immigrants and refugees, after which they will not be allowed to receive services in a language other than French. They also want to open a country-to-country dialogue with indigenous peoples in response to their demands for the protection of their languages ​​in Quebec.

On behalf of the official opposition, Dominique Anglet’s Liberal Party announced a few weeks ago that it would vote against the bill, specifically condemning the use of the contempt rule (so-called subdivision).

Speeches to pass the bill continue in the blue room of the National Assembly on Tuesday. Former Liberal Minister of Culture Mary Montpett, who has been sitting as an independent MP since Dominic Anglet was expelled from the committee, announced on Tuesday that he would vote in favor.

Once the law is passed, the government will file its language policy in the coming year. The legal battle is also ongoing. As revealed on Monday PressLawyers such as Julius Gray consider Bill 96 to be “hostile.”