Quebec’s anglophones living a winter of discontent

Quebec bureaucrats are preparing regulations for Bill 96, the egregious changes to the Charter of the French Language, which will soon explode on the anglophone community.

It is remarkable that despite the ignorance, insults, and discrimination from Premier François Legault’s Quebec government and nationalist intelligentsia, so many have anglophones have stayed in the province, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

February 8, 2023

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In the intense cold of a Quebec winter, there is a slowness to the rhythm of public life. Aside from occasional sounds from the National Assembly and the Quebec Carnaval, all is quiet. Soon that will change: Quebec bureaucrats are preparing regulations for...

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