Quebec seeks to change Canadian Constitution, make sweeping changes to language laws with new bill
Published on May 13, 2021 with No Comments
New bill seeks to bolster the French language in public and workplaces after studies showed decline.
The Quebec government has tabled a bill that seeks to change the Canadian Constitution to include a specific clause reiterating the Quebec nation’s French-language rights.
That’s one part of a sweeping new bill that, if passed, would become the most stringent law to bolster the status of the French language in Quebec since Bill 101 passed in 1977.
Much of the 100-page bill is targeted at bolstering the use of French in public and workplaces after a series of studies by Quebec’s French-language watchdog, the OQLF, found that French in Quebec is in decline.