All Quebec municipalities that have been vulnerable to shedding their bilingual standing beneath a provincial language legislation have opted to keep up their proper to serve folks in each English and French.
The province’s language workplace — Office québécois de la langue française — has confirmed that the 48 cities, cities or boroughs that have been notified their standing could possibly be revoked have taken the mandatory motion to stay bilingual.
Under Quebec’s new language legislation, municipalities through which fewer than 50 per cent of residents have English as a mom tongue might lose the suitable to speak with residents in English.
However, Bill 96 permits bilingual cities to keep away from having their statuses revoked by passing a decision affirming their want to remain bilingual, inside 120 days of receiving discover from the province.
More than half of the province’s 89 bilingual municipalities acquired these notices in December as a result of their English-language populations ranged between 7.2 per cent to only beneath 50 per cent.
The workplace of French Language Minister Jean-François Roberge says the legislation strikes a stability between selling French and defending minority rights, including that mayors should justify their selections to voters.
