MONTREAL When Peter Doonan recently scrolled through the Longueuil municipal website, he said he was surprised to see all of the English-language pages were missing. The borough councillor for Greenfield Park and some of his colleagues had been calling for improvements to the site because he said the new version of the website contained numerous broken links, and not all of the sections contained English translations. Changing the site to unilingual French wasn’t what they had in mind. “We were blindsided. We didn’t know about it until it happened,” he said. While he doesn’t understand why the city would remove the English pages that were already online, he said he’s mostly worried that during a pandemic, anglophone or allophone residents could end up missing important information.
When Peter Doonan recently scrolled through the Longueuil municipal website, he said he was surprised to see all of the English-language pages were missing. While he doesn’t understand why the city would remove the English pages that were already online, he said he’s mostly worried that during a pandemic, anglophone or allophone residents could end up missing important information.