The Legault government will pass its bill 96, a comprehensive language reform and update of law 101, this week, despite the rejection shown by a good portion of elected members of the opposition ranks.
The official Liberal opposition will vote against it because the bill goes too far, in its view as violating the rights of Anglophones, while the PQ opposition will vote against it because the bill does not go far enough, not having the bite needed to reverse the trend and prevent the decline of the French.
For its part, Québec solidaire will vote on the bill, while showing significant reservations, especially on the issue of public services being offered only in French six months after the arrival of allophones, a period considered too short.
The Minister sponsoring the law, Simon Jolin-Barrette, was therefore unable to rally the opposition parties to his approach and his view on matters, regarding his proposal for a new linguistic framework. which is likely to better protect the French. in Quebec.
Nevertheless, and despite the controversy, Caquiste’s amendment to the Charter of the French language should have the force of law by the end of the week, during the final vote in the National Assembly.
A law project misleading
Contrary to the government’s claims, according to the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, future law 96 announces the decline of the French in Quebec, due to the lack of necessary push to ensure its maintenance.
We don’t have to give moral support to something that is misleading, the PQ leader commented on Tuesday at a press briefing, confirming that his political party would vote against the reform despite its few real advances. This is a question of moral duty in his eyes.
According to PQ, the CAQ government is looking for more look nationalist only to really be so by proposing reforms worthy of the name.
The main difficult topic for PQ was the government’s refusal to extend Bill 101 to CEGEP. But other issues told him that Bill 96 was toothless, including the question of the bilingual status of municipalities and the lack of indicators to measure the progress made thanks to this law.
According to him, the government does not provide assistance in an endangered language.
Source: Radio-Canada
