The province of Quebec, home toCanada's largest population of French speakers, has passed a new law to preserve and promote the language.The law, known as Bill 96, has put pressure on English speakers and international students — causing some to leave the province ent...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook (redirected fromQuebecers) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Related to Quebecers:Quebeckers Que·bec (kwĭ-bĕk′)orQué·bec(kā-) 1.Abbr.QCorQue.A province of eastern Canada. Originally the inhabited portion of New France along the St. Lawrence River, it became the ...
This article reports that the Quebec government is saluting the 30th anniversary of the province's first major language law in a new campaign in dailies, weeklies, buses and street columns. In 1974, the Liberal government of the time created Bill 22, the precursor to Bill 101, which was ...
Leadership candidate Scott Aitchison, an MP from rural Ontario, released a statement ahead of Wednesday’s event pledging that a government led by him would work with Quebecers to see the new language bill and province’s religious symbols law repealed, calling Premier François Legault’s ...
“Either I remove my hijab and accept this flagrant violation of my rights under the Canadian and Quebec charters of rights and freedoms or I find another line of work,” says Farhat, who recently wrote an open letter against Bill 21 on Droit-Inc, Quebec’s popular Frenc...
a number of laws that limit the use of English in business, schools, and — most infamously — public signs and advertisements. The legal centrepiece of this is theCharter of the French Language, also known asBill 101, whose strict rules have governed Quebec language policy for over 40 ...
augmented by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (a bill of rights), provided the country with a new constitution. Lévesque’s Parti Québécois rejected the newconstitutionon the grounds that it diminished Quebec’s power over language and education and that it did away with Quebec’sconstitutio...
“[Premier François Legault] has given a clear mandate to do everything possible to slow, halt and reverse the decline of French in Québec,” said Jean-François Roberge, the minister responsible for the French language. “In the coming weeks, you will see the government taking other mea...
Quebec Premier François Legault was asked about the government’s decision during question period of Monday’s COVID-19 update press conference. He told reporters that there are too many projects right now, and there’s a limited capacity to building new infrastructure. ...
Quebec’s nationalist premier, François Legault, hasexpressed his fearthat Quebec may one day resemble Louisiana, where French surnames are common, but the language itself is rare. There has also been controversy over Quebecois culture and identity becoming asubject of mockeryin Montreal’s public...