Parti Quebecois: Minority Status

Premier Pauline Marois Dept: Hampered by its minority status in the province s national assembly, the Parti Quebecois has eliminated many of the most controversial measures from its summer campaign platform to boost the use of French, including a ban on francophone students attending English colleges, according to The Star. This is realpolitik, said Premier Pauline Marois. We are in a minority government. We hope that this bill will be adopted and mONTREAL Proposed new language laws in Quebec would have citizen snitches and a public list of shame for businesses that can t or won t provide services for customers and employees in French. But legislation introduced Wednesday would still extend language laws to businesses with 26 or more employees. French-first laws, known as Bill 101, currently only apply to firms with more than 50 workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.