Bill 101 applying federally? Time for some constitutional common sense

If Quebec applied Bill 101 to federal entities it would exclude Quebec anglophones from services and opportunities and would be a slippery slope to a national unity crisis.

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole newfound concern for the supposed decline of French in Quebec and support for the application of Bill 101 to federally regulated entities would be ridiculed by the late former senator Eugene Foresy, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 9, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I miss Eugene Forsey. The late, great former senator was a source of incredible insight into the Constitution. And he was always accessible: as a political assistant or journalist, if I had a question on constitutional law, I would phone him up and he would settle things with a s...

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