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Coalition Avenir Qu: Premier Pauline Marois

Premier Pauline Marois: Emerging from a three-day caucus meeting in Carleton-sur-Mer on the Gasp Peninsula, Premier Pauline Marois said her government would let the bill die rather than water it down any further, according to CBC. The third party in the national assembly, the Coalition Avenir Qu bec , has been in discussions with the minister responsible for the bill, Diane de Courcy, about further proposed amendments in exchange for CAQ's support and Quebec's minority government may allow Bill 14, its controversial amendment to Quebec's French language charter, to die on the order paper, in order to throw its political energy into the so-called charter of quebec values which it plans to table when the national assembly resumes sitting in September. Highlights from Bill 14 PQ pitches tighter language restrictions to boost French PQ's proposed changes to Bill 14 leave critics skeptical The opposition Liberals have taken a firm position against the proposed changes , which, among other measures, would give the government the power to revoke a municipality's bilingual status and would increase the powers of the so-called "language police." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.