Loi 101 - 30e anniversaire - "satisfaction" anglaise

Raining on the parade

Enough of the glowing commentary on Bill 101 - it was devastating to Quebec's English-speaking community

On its 30th anniversary, commentators and politicians lined up to speak in glowing terms about Bill 101 as a landmark, society-altering law that succeeded in securing Quebec's French language and culture, which was precariously floating within a North American ocean of 250 million English-speaking people. Many anglophones have weighed in, saying that as a result of the circumstances, our community has benefit...

L'acharnement "atavique" de la Gâzette

Landry is out of touch

That's too bad, because neither part of his wistfully atavistic pronouncement survives comparison with the realities of Quebec in 2007.

[Quebec is neither bilingual nor multicultural, former Premier Bernard Landry claimed this weekend->8489], and if you move here you are expected to leave your old culture behind. All home abandon, ye who enter here. Speaking at a Sunday rally in support of the Charter of the French Language, Landry chose to throw another log on the already-blazing debate about Quebec identity. Speculation about why he did it should ...

Charest learned not to touch Bill 101

It's likely the Liberals will leave charter alone, unless they strengthen it

Don't touch Bill 101. That was the first rule for a Quebec Liberal leader that Jean Charest learned when he came over from Ottawa in 1998. And it's a rule he has followed ever since. That might be about to change. At the Liberal Party youth convention two weeks ago, there were a couple of indications Charest's government might be about to modify the French Language Charter in ways yet unspecified. The conventio...

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Les 30 ans de la loi 101

«It's a crock of shit.»


Louise Leduc - «It's a crock of shit.» [Don Donderi, professeur associé à l'Université McGill->8472], a laissé tomber cette phrase pour toute réponse à une demande d'entrevue sur la Loi 101, avant de raccrocher sans saluer. Traduction libre: la Loi 101, c'est un tas de merde. Combien sont-ils à le penser aujourd'hui? Alliance Québec n'est plus. Le Parti égalité non plus. La paix linguistique semble s'être installée....

Bill 101 paved way for peace


Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the day the Charte de la langue française, commonly known in anglo Quebec parlance as Bill 101, became law in the province. It was at the time, and yet remains, the most contentious piece of Quebec legislation passed in the past half-century. It was passed in the National Assembly the day before, on Aug. 26, 1977, after a roiling marathon 40-day, 200-hour debate, by a vote ...

It was the law that saved Canada

30 years later: Three writers examine the aftermath of three decades of the Charter of the French Language. Charter allowed francophones to feel confident enough to vote No

Four years and two Parti Québécois leadership changes ago, Bernard Landry became red-faced and almost choked with rage at hearing a guest panelist tell a PQ meeting that the sovereignty movement had become a victim of its own successes within Canada. The panelist was Jean-Herman Guay, a political scientist at the Université de Sherbrooke. And one of the successes he mentioned was Bill 101. The adoption o...

C'est normal

Lévesque urged anglos to give bill a chance

Thirty years ago tomorrow, when the Charter of the French language was adopted by the National Assembly, Réne Lévesque implored Quebec's anglophone and allophone minorities to give Bill 101 "a chance." Lévesque himself was never very comfortable with the interdictions and coercive nature of his government's language law. He found it "humiliating," although he also found it "normal," a favourite word of his tha...

Insecurity of Quebec francophones still looms large

Polls show French-speakers' concern about the survival of their language

With the adoption of Bill 101 - the Charter of the French Language - in 1977, the Quebec government demonstrated that it could protect French while the province remained part of Canada. Since then, Quebec sovereignists have argued, the federal government has reduced the impact of the legislation, using the Supreme Court of Canada and the Canadian Charter of Rights. They point to decisions they say undercut two maj...

When in Stockholm, speak English

Par Don Donderi

I am writing about a northern land of rivers, lakes and forests, rich in natural resources, where fewer than nine million people live at the edge of a continent of over two hundred and seventy million people who do not speak their language. The land has a proud and turbulent history, and its soldiers and adventurers once commanded half the continent. It has a beautiful capital city with a commanding view of water....

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