Minister Nicole Leger: The French Language Charter

Nicole Leger Dept: The measure will be part of legislation to be tabled this fall that is aimed at toughening Bill 101, formally known as the French Language Charter, Families Minister Nicole Leger said. Quebec Families Minister Nicole Leger says the government's language-law reforms will touch daycare centres. Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press, according to CBC. Quebec has various types of child-care centres and it is not immediately clear whether the new legislation would apply to all of them if the bill even passed in the legislature, where the Parti Quebecois government has a minority. But it appears that the new rules would at least apply to children up to age five who attend publicly run or subsidized daycares and early-childhood centres and immigrants to Quebec who want to send their children to daycare will soon have to look into finding a French-language centre, the government said Wednesday, outlining the latest plank in its plan to overhaul the province's language laws. "Bill 101 is going to be changed," Leger said in an interview. "I will have plenty of support as family minister to make sure it also extends to daycares." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.