{"id":24433,"date":"2014-02-25T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24433"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:48:52","slug":"next-on-quebecs-language-hit-list-getting-rid-of-bonjour-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/next-on-quebecs-language-hit-list-getting-rid-of-bonjour-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Next on Quebec&#8217;s language hit-list &#8211; getting rid of &#8220;Bonjour-Hi&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglos in Quebec will be facing tougher language laws if (when) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/life\/Expect+tougher+language+laws+wins+majority+minister+says\/9544943\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois wins a majority<\/a> in the next provincial election:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking to business leaders, Diane De Courcy vowed to halt Quebec\u2019s \u201cunacceptable slide\u201d into institutional bilingualism \u2014 in Montreal and across the province.<\/p>\n<p>A PQ majority government would make it a priority to bring back Bill 14 and to stamp out examples of creeping bilingualism like sales staff who greet customers with \u201cBonjour-Hi,\u201d she said at a day-long conference on francization programs held by the <em>Conseil du patronat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMontreal is not a bilingual city. Quebec is not a bilingual Quebec,\u201d De Courcy said to reporters after her speech.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the government decided not to push for adoption of Bill 14, strengthening Quebec\u2019s French Language Charter, because of a lack of support from opposition parties. The wide-ranging bill would extend Bill 101 rules for large businesses to smaller companies with between 25 and 50 employees, and toughen up aspects of the language law on access to English education and bilingual municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Employees who deal with the public must be able to address customers correctly in French, \u201cnot like what we have right now in downtown Montreal, and not only in Montreal, which is \u2018Bonjour-Hi,\u2019\u201d De Courcy said.<\/p>\n<p>De Courcy said she thinks it\u2019s great if individuals want to learn different languages like English, Spanish, Mandarin or Arabic in their private lives, but institutions and businesses must function strictly in French.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a difference with what is institutional and it must be without mercy,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglos in Quebec will be facing tougher language laws if (when) the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois wins a majority in the next provincial election: Speaking to business leaders, Diane De Courcy vowed to halt Quebec\u2019s \u201cunacceptable slide\u201d into institutional bilingualism \u2014 in Montreal and across the province. A PQ majority government would make it a priority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[400,325,842,113],"class_list":["post-24433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-language","tag-montreal","tag-partiquebecois","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6m5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24435,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions\/24435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}