Liberals attempt ‘balancing act’ with new Official Languages Action Plan: observers

Conservative official languages critic Joël Godin called the timing of the plan a ‘marketing stunt’ on the heels of C-13 returning to the House.

Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced the federal government's new Official Languages Action Plan on April 26.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

April 28, 2023

With their newly announced official languages policy, the federal Liberals are “speaking to different constituencies” both inside and outside of Quebec, and trying to balance political pressures on a file where they are “damned if they do, and damned if they don’t,�...

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