Trailing badly, PQ pitches stronger language law: New version of Bill 101 would force smaller firms with 50 or fewer employees to operate in French
MONTREAL–Three decades ago, Quebec's controversial language law, Bill 101, helped spark a kind of linguistic war that hurt the province economically, and eventually led to the exodus of hundreds of thousands of anglophones ...
Yesterday, in a bid to rally members of the party's sovereignist base – some of whom are frustrated Marois has put sovereignty on the backburner – the leader proposed that Quebec update provisions of Bill 101, originally put in place by her party in 1977 ...
Former PQ language minister Louise Beaudoin, who is a candidate in this election, said new immigrants would be expected to learn French, and, after three years, the government would only communicate with them in French ...