The Association of Suburban Municipalities, representing 13 of the 15 municipalities with bilingual status on the island of Montreal, issued a news release Wednesday afternoon, calling for the status to be maintained, even where demographics have changed. “For us, balance means strengthening the French language without taking away the rights of citizens in bilingual municipalities, said Beny Masella, mayor of Montreal West and head of the association. “We fully support the social and political consensus in favour of protecting and strengthening the status of the French language in Quebec. At the same time, we are committed to protecting the gains that are important to the citizens of our municipalities,” the news release read.
Premier François Legault should call off the language hard-liners and let cities like Côte-St-Luc do their jobs.
Author of the article: Mitchell Brownstein • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • May 10, 2021 • 3 minute read • Simon Jolin-Barrette, Quebec s language minister, says he is considering changes to the Charter of the French Language that may cause some municipalities, including Côte-St-Luc, to lose the right to offer services to residents in English. Photo by Jacques Boissinot /The Canadian Press
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Quebec’s Minister Responsible for the French Language, Simon Jolin-Barrette, recently stated he is considering changes to the Charter of the French Language that may cause some municipalities, including Côte-St-Luc, to lose the right to offer services to residents in English.
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The ASM (Association of Suburban Municipalities) is welcoming the Ministry of Municipal Affairs creation of an administrative working committee aimed at revising the methods of distribution of the municipalitiesâ quotas from the Agglomeration to the demerged municipalities.
âWe are very satisfied to see that a working committee has been put in place to finally find a solution to correct the inequalities that we currently live,â said ASM President and Montreal West Beny Masella.
The ASM did not support the latest budget put forward by the city of Montreal citing that they could not support a budget that was downloading too many costs to the demerged cities.