'Anxiety and frustration': Demonstrators protest Quebec language law
Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 5:44 am
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MONTREAL - On a scorching Saturday, demonstrators streamed through downtown Montreal to protest Quebec's contentious language bill, demanding it be scrapped to preserve the rights of anglophones, allophones and Indigenous communities.
The protesters, who rallied at Dawson College before marching more than two kilometres to Premier Francois Legault's office, made an 11th-hour plea against the legislation, which aims to strengthen the province's French-language charter.
Bill 96 is expected to pass this month, and would impose tougher language requirements on workplaces and municipalities.
It also seeks to limit the use of English in the courts and public services, grant powers of search and seizure without a warrant to Quebec's language regulator and cap enrolment at English junior colleges, called CEGEPs, where students would have to take more courses in French.
MONTREAL - On a scorching Saturday, demonstrators streamed through downtown Montreal to protest Quebec's contentious language bill, demanding it be scrapped to preserve the rights of anglophones, allophones and Indigenous communities.
The protesters, who rallied at Dawson College before marching more than two kilometres to Premier Francois Legault's office, made an 11th-hour plea against the legislation, which aims to strengthen the province's French-language charter.
Bill 96 is expected to pass this month, and would impose tougher language requirements on workplaces and municipalities.
It also seeks to limit the use of English in the courts and public services, grant powers of search and seizure without a warrant to Quebec's language regulator and cap enrolment at English junior colleges, called CEGEPs, where students would have to take more courses in French.