Bill C-13 will be passed, the consequences be damned

The bill’s asymmetrical focus favouring the concerns of the francophone minorities in other provinces over those of Quebec’s anglophone minority will create a backlash.

The House committee studying Official Language Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor’s Bill C-13 doesn’t want to hear contrary arguments, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 12, 2022

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The fix is in: the House of Commons committee studying the new Official Languages Act is not interested in hearing contrary arguments. I found that out last week. As the part-time president of the Task Force on Linguistic Policy, I lead a group of several hundred Quebec-based vol...

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