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written by brad fults
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Quebec government has passed laws which forbid French speakers and immigrants to send their children to English-language schools; compel businesses with more than fifty employees to be run in French; and ban English commercial signs. So, if your ancestors were French you, too, must by government fiat speak French whatever your personal wishes may be.
Err, what? When did Canada become an autocracy?
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I’m not sure why Quebec can ban English on signs when the rest of the country requires both languages on just about everything. This sounds like an interposition-and-nullification kinda thing. But I dono the Canadian constitution; maybe province laws take precedence?
In general this astounds me.