Suggestion to make Quebec bilingual | “What a lack of respect”, protests Simon Jolin-Barrette

(Ottawa) Quebec Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette added his voice to the Bloc and Conservatives in Ottawa who say they are outraged by comments from Laval MP of the Liberal Party of Canada Angelo Iacono, according to whom Quebec would benefit from becoming an officially bilingual province rather than having only French as an official language.




” No. […] What a lack of respect,” protested Friday on X the one who piloted the reform of the Charter of the French language, also known as bill 96.

Quebec is a French-speaking state and will remain so. That’s what sets him apart. The federal government is always there to defend diversity, but when the time comes to defend the specificity of Quebec, it is absent.

Simon Jolin-Barrette, on

Mr. Iacono made his controversial remarks Thursday evening during a meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Languages ​​in Ottawa. “I believe that Quebec, and I believe that Canada, should be a bilingual country, to be stronger and not just be a unilingual French-speaking province, because there you will exclude others who want to learn French,” said he asserted.


source site-63