Joly treading on dangerous ground with white paper on official languages

Quebecers will band together to promote French and governments need to have their back. But not at the expense of francophones in the rest of Canada.

Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages Melanie Joly, pictured Oct. 2, 2020, on the Hill. Ms. Joly has excellent communication skills in both official languages, but as she discovered on the Netflix file, the devil is in the details, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

February 22, 2021

Economic Development and Official Languages Minister Melanie Joly’s white paper on official languages has not even been released and already the opposition parties are lining up against it. In a speech in November, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole accused the Liberals of refusing “to protect ...

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