The Gazette

If the New Democrats want to poke anglophone Quebecers in the eye, they have every right to do so. But they should at least have the courage to admit what they’re doing.  Last week New Democrats in Parliament – including Tom Mulcair, MP for Outremont and the party’s Quebec caucus – voted to diminish anglophone language rights in Quebec. At issue was a Bloc resolution – defeated, because the Liberals sided with the Conservatives – that would have made the federal government abandon what control it has over the language of work in Quebec. […] This time the estimable Quebec Community Groups Network was ready for that sleight of hand, with its own legal opinion suggesting that the Bloc motion, if enacted, would indeed cut into the protection the federal Official Languages Act offers to linguistic minorities. Read more…