The reaction across Canada to Quebec’s Bill 96, another language law invoking the professed threat to the survival of the French language in Quebec in order to justify an obnoxious retrenchment of freedom of expression in the province, has been quite different to the response to its predecessors, Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa’s Bill 22 in 1974, and Parti Québecois Premier Rene Levesque’s Bill 101 in 1977. On those occasions, there were intense.