What the hell is a ‘historic anglophone’?

There will be a problem when Bill 96 passes, when half of the anglophone community will be refused government services in English, including health care, licences, welfare, or taxes.

Quebec Premier François Legault’s Bill 96 is a ham-fisted law that will apply to federally regulated businesses with the Trudeau government’s tacit consent, via the new Official Languages Act, Bill C-13., writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

May 18, 2022

MONTREAL, QUE.—In the coming weeks, the Coalition Avenir Québec government of François Legault will pass Bill 96, a law allegedly intended to improve French in Quebec, but which is really an attack on English-speaking Quebecers. On May 14, about 10,000 people (including me) marched though downto...

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