“Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is under fire over her administration’s newly released budget. While the opposition has expressed its anger over tax increases, the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste (SSJB), as well as Mouvement Montréal français (MMF), are taking aim not at the content of the budget — but its language.”

Two Montreal-based nationalist groups criticized the Plante administration because the budget documents were drafted in both English and French. The Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Mouvement Montréal français said the city violated the first article in its charter by having bilingual budget documents. Budgets by the city are generally presented in both English and French, a practice that predates Valérie Plante’s election.

The QCGN was critical of the joint statement, asking whether tax increases only affected French-speaking Montrealers in a Tweet.

Read the article published on Global Montreal’s website (en anglais)