Judge suspends 2 articles of Bill 96
"Quebec's new language law suffered a first defeat on Friday, as a judge temporarily suspended a provision requiring English court documents to be translated into French.
Sections of Bill 96 that require corporations to pay a certified translator to produce French versions of legal documents could prevent some English-speaking organizations from accessing justice, Quebec Superior Court Justice Chantal Corriveau ruled.
Earlier this week, lawyers for Quebec's judicial council -- Conseil de la magistrature du Quebec -- and for three senior provincial court judges, including Chief Judge Lucie Rondeau, filed a suit to strike down parts of the law allowing the justice minister to decide which judicial postings require knowledge of English. Those sections of Bill 96 violate the 1867 Constitution Act, the lawyers said." Read the whole article
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If the law is found to violate the BNA act, then the notwithstanding clause cannot be invoked.
But the government knew in advance that this would be challenged and likely be tossed.
Simon Jolie Barette the CAQ justice minister is channelling Dr. Camille Laurin, who also deliberately included dubious clauses in Bill 101, clauses that he knew would be rejected upon court challenge,
The idea was that the rejection by the court would enrage and inflame Quebecers and thus fan the flames of sovereignty.
In the meantime Quebec's chief judge is taking aim at the law, declaring that some clauses are clearly unconstitutional and thus invalid.
This is round 2 of the battle between her and the justice minister who failed to appeal a decision in which he challenged the independence of the judiciary.
In that first round, the judge ruled that the justice minister cannot set criteria pertaining to the selection of judges, which invalided the current requirement that judges be bilingual.
Le Journal de Montreal reported that the Chief Justice of the Court of Quebec, Lucie Rondeau, brought a civil suit against Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette to have a measure annulled which prohibits the quasi-systematic requirement of bilingualism in the appointment of new magistrates.
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Martineau and his dumb comments
It is a little sad to see a mainstream journalist hack stoop to quoting unedited, unfiltered and cherry-picked comments from the Twittersphere to make his point that Canada hates Quebec with a passion.
That is the gist of an article that he penned using a selection of dumb Twitter quotes to support his argument.
The fact that Mr. Martineau's own account @RiMartineau has been suspended from Twitter doesn't stop him from consulting the site regularly.
“Last Tuesday, on his Twitter account, Jean Charest wrote that he hoped that the next debate on August 3 between the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada will be bilingual, because "bilingualism is the strength of Canada" and that " the two official languages must be defended equally”. Here's a quick rundown of the comments his tweet elicited. Link{Fr}
- No one gives a damn about bilingualism, except Quebeckers who believe their language is important for the rest of the country.”
- I do not believe that the French language should be imposed by force on the Anglophone majority of Canada.
- “Sorry, but most people have no interest in French.
- Charest seems to forget that Quebec is a unilingual French-speaking province. We should stop imposing French in Canada and we would save billions. Long live Poilievre!” “
- “By trying to appease Quebec with bilingualism, we weaken the presence of Western Canadians in essential positions in the country.”
- “The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages is a waste of public money. We should abolish it.
- Life in Quebec has become a horror because of language restrictions.
- With all the problems Canada is experiencing, the issue of bilingualism should be number 300 on the list of priorities for the next leader of the CCP.”
Having been banned from Twitter, perhaps Mr. Martineau can channel Donald Trump and create his own version of Truth Social where he and others can freely slag Anglos, ethnics and Canadiens without fear of being called out or banned.
At any rate, in another dubious post on Facebook where he slagged a group of stores for using a picture of a potential employee in a hijab, a reader offered a selection of equally nasty comments under his post.
- “What's the name of the stores, I'll boycott them”
- “Quebec- Allah's land.”
- “Just refuse to be served by an employee wearing a hijab.”
- “While people focus on Covid, we are being brainwashed with ads featuring hijabs.”
- Frightening!”
- Reno should be ashamed, undoubtedly bought by Islamofascists.
- We've been double-crossed.
So much for comments from the peanut gallery.
Quebec's biggest racist
You'll remember the radical sovereigntist website vigile.quebec which got into trouble years back for several antisemitic stories which had mainstream nationalists and politicians abandoning support.
Now the website regularly publishes opinion pieces which promote sovereignty in a respectful, intelligent and coherent manner and I read many of the stories with interest.
Where the problems lie are in the section "Tribune Libre" where ordinary readers are given a platform to sound off without any editorial oversight, which sometimes leads to blatantly racist, Anglophobic, anti-native, anti-black and anti-immigrant pieces which are something to behold.
That a Canadian Quebec website would publish these racist diatribes is simply amazing and I challenge anyone to point me to a mainstream English website that treats francophones with such utter disdain and hatred.
I'm going to share some of these pieces, translating one juicy column per post. I'll start with Rejean Labrie who must be Quebec's biggest racist who in post after post outdoes himself with outpourings of racism and hate..
He is a jewel.
He is a jewel.
"The place of Anglo-Montrealers is elsewhere in Canada, not in Quebec
Réjean Labrie February 25, 2022
“The place of Anglo-Montrealers is elsewhere in Canada, but no longer in Quebec.
It is up to the entire population to become aware of this and to ensure that a vast relocation plan to another province be initiated in the near future.
An Anglo who learns French is still an Anglo.
This is why there will always be too many Anglos in Quebec.
Even if he manages to cope with the pain and misery of French and makes himself understood when necessary, he continues to live exclusively in his Anglo world, in Anglo culture, in the Anglo media.
It's quite simple: in Montreal, to hear less English, we need fewer Anglos.
Anglophones know practically nothing about the people of Quebec, about current events in Quebec, about Quebec culture, which they do not consume or live. Anglos do not associate with Quebecers.
Anglos has no interest in the Quebec reality and our culture and will never develop any. This is why it is only a vain illusion that it is enough to francize the Anglos and then let them continue to live quietly in Quebec in their world apart.
This laissez-faire attitude means that they continue to increase in number, numbers that will only accelerate the influence of North American English culture in Quebec.
A second disadvantage of letting them increase in number is that it also increases the appeal of English among allophones who, too, don't care about the French language.
Remember that all allophones would like to become English-speaking Canadian citizens, not French-speaking Quebec citizens. It was their first choice, what attracted them here and it was what they expected when they came to Canada. Most of them even believe that they have been played a very bad trick by having been assigned to reside in Quebec. It is well known that all the allophones join forces with the anglophones to vote for the Liberal Party of Quebec, now deserted by the native French speakers, clearly positioning themselves against all the legitimate aspirations of the Quebec people, starting with the desire for a French Quebec or the idea of becoming an independent country.
Neither of the two groups is on our side. We understand that it is not in the national interest to allow one or the other to expand on our territory.
There is no other solution to this problem than to ensure that the English speakers of Quebec decrease in number (as well as the allophones opting for English of course) and are relocated to another province of their choice. It would be desirable that they feel a certain pressure not to delay.
Bye, bye Anglos. Send us postcards, in French I hope." LINK{FR}
Phony language statistics debunked
Everyone knows that statistics can be made to support just about any argument and when a statistician has a political agenda, all manner of bullshit can result.Such nonsense is the case of go-to sovereigntist statistician Charles Castonguay who has been pedalling his contrived, massaged and misinterpreted statistics indicating French is in trouble in Quebec for years. As the author of “Le français en chute libre” (French in Freefall), he is the poster boy of mangled, twisted and misconstrued nonsense masquerading as facts.
His statistical account of how French is in trouble along with other studies of the same ilk has finally been debunked by an ex-professor of UQAM Calvin Veltman who destroys the phony methodology and conclusion of these sovereigntist shills.
“The dominating paradigm in Quebec is that French is on the way to extinction. This is what statistician Charles Castonguay stipulates in his essay “Le français en chute libre”. Even Premier François Legault has claimed that Quebec could become Louisiana if it does not obtain all the powers from Ottawa in matters of immigration. Multiple forecasting studies by demographer Marc Termote, notably this one, as well as those by René Houle and Jean-Pierre Corbeil also seem to reinforce this perspective.However, all these studies are based on methodological principles which, from a sociolinguistic point of view, are untenable.The division of multiple responses, such as the declaration of a mother tongue or a language of use such as Arabic and French, pro rata between the two groups, falsifies the figures, as does the refusal to recognize the presence and meaning of “regularly” spoken second languages among allophones.
In this article, I demonstrate that 280,000 francized allophones are not taken into account in studies on the decline of French. As a sociologist and sociolinguist, I have published numerous studies on linguistic mobility in the United States, Quebec and Alsace.
All the data thus suggests that the French/English ratio continues to evolve in favor of French, which remains at at least 73%. This this now brings the share of French in Quebec to 83.6% according to the sociolinguistic methodology, an increase of three points compared to the calculation proposed by Castonguay.
The announced "fall" of French isn't happening soon!”
Read the detailed article in French
MORE STATISTICAL NONSENSE
“According to the study, conducted by the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) based on 2016 census data, people who use only English at work earn an average of $46,047 per year, or 20% of more than the average income of $38,346 for those who use only French.
“It’s insulting and downright unacceptable to see that the person who uses only English in Quebec earns more than the person who uses only French”, indignant Jean-Paul Perreault, president of Impératif français, an organization defense and promotion of French.” Link
Now let's add a little context.
Those who work in English only are almost all in jobs based in Montreal which boasts salaries higher than the rest of Quebec.
Secondly, companies or jobs that work only in English are usually in very high-paying industries, like high-tech, aviation, pharma, research, legal and engineering.
Not many English-only jobs exist in lower-paying echelons like the public service, factory, trades and the retail industry.
Secondly, companies or jobs that work only in English are usually in very high-paying industries, like high-tech, aviation, pharma, research, legal and engineering.
Not many English-only jobs exist in lower-paying echelons like the public service, factory, trades and the retail industry.
Consider that the very few English-only jobs are being compared to the massive amount of French-only jobs. It is statistically dishonest.
Let us remember that anglos attend university at a 30-40% higher level than francophones, boosting their earning potential. So much for the outrage
Short stuff
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Encouraged by the current language hysteria, a racist goes off on a neighbour over lack of French.
"Go back to India or Pakistan!"To her credit a francophone neighbour tries to intervene and asks the fellow politely to leave.
"You have no business here if you don't speak the language!"
"Go home to where you belong!"
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