On the sidelines of the adoption by the Senate of Bill C-11, which will force the digital giants to finance and promote Canadian content, the Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, announced that he would surround him with a group of experts who will advise him on the best ways to improve the place of the French language in the digital environment.
The minister was speaking early Friday afternoon to several hundred guests gathered by the Montreal Council for International Relations (CORIM).
The Minister indicated that he had himself approached the former PQ Minister of Culture and International Relations Louise Beaudoin, the former delegate general of Quebec in Paris and administrator of the International Organization of La Francophonie, Clément Duhaime, the full professor at the Faculty of Law of Université Laval and holder of the UNESCO Research Chair on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Véronique Guèvremont, as well as Patrick Taillon, co-director of the Center for Studies in Administrative and Constitutional Law at Université Laval, where he is also a full professor at the Faculty of Law.
These four experts will be responsible for advising the Minister on the various tools to use and the possible avenues, whether legislative or not, to ensure the survival of the French language and Quebec culture.
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