Quebec’s anglophones have been cast adrift by the Trudeau government

The anglophone community in Quebec is furious. Given a million angry English speakers are concentrated in two-dozen Quebec ridings, if I were a Liberal, I would be very, very worried.

Quebec’s Bill 96 also aligns with the Trudeau government's amendments to the Official Languages Act, Bill C-32, which emphasizes rights of francophones in the rest of Canada and Quebec over those of anglophones, writes Andrew Caddell. Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly, pictured in October 2020, tabled Bill C-32, which applies Quebec’s language laws to federally chartered companies, many of which operate in English, on June 15.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

June 23, 2021

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—It is tough being abandoned. On June 16, virtually the entire House of Commons dropped any historical commitment to the anglophone minority in Quebec, as it supported a Bloc Québécois motion recognizing Quebec's “right" to unilaterally amend its provincial Constitution. This ...

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