Marois promises a new Bill 101

Posted By: Michael Forian · 8/12/2012 1:55:00 PM

If elected, new language laws will come. That's according to Pauline Marois.

With star candidate Jean-François Lisée by her side, Marois reiterated the Parti Quebecois' language platform at a Sunday morning press conference.

The leader of the PQ, who is currently vying for the office of Premier, says one of the top priorities within her first one hundred days in office will be a new Bill 101 for small businesses.

"It is our plan to implement the obligation to work in French and to respect law 101 in a small business where you have 10 to 50 workers," said Marois.

She also went on to announce that her party will eliminate a current loophole allowing the children of native French speakers and immigrants to access English private schools.

At present, those students must attend a private, non-subsidized English institution for at least three years before being able to register at a public primary or secondary English school.

Higher education will be affected as well with Marois promising to restrict French-language high school students from entering Anglophone CEGEPs.

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  1. BernardD posted on 08/12/2012 02:20 PM
    And I can see the Francophone students who would kill to be admitted to Dawson, Vanier, John Abbot etc voting for her...and their parents as well

    LOL
  2. Steve posted on 08/12/2012 04:58 PM
    So basically her whole campaign is restriction the rights that non francophones have. Taking away the right to be educated in the language of your choice is oppressive and ridiculous.
  3. JasonB_5437 posted on 08/12/2012 07:15 PM
    Maybe next she will tell us that we can only speak frecnh at home too.
    1. WILLinMTL posted on 08/16/2012 06:03 PM
      @JasonB_5437 Not completely unrelated, but my niece and nephew go to French elementary school, and are completely bilingual. If they speak English among themselves at recess they get a detention. If they have iPod (ya, I know....) the games have to be in French, or detention.
      They are both going to English high school, so better hurry up before it becomes illegal.
  4. Daniel posted on 08/12/2012 07:17 PM
    After all these years, I can't believe there are still people prepared to vote for this ideology......
  5. alrev posted on 08/13/2012 08:58 AM
    What a turnaround from lobsters in the pot to sheep in the pen!
    I'm sure the drop out rate will really change now.
  6. JerryR_3213 posted on 08/13/2012 09:04 AM
    What is wrong with this woman? The world functions on the English language.Quebec will go no where with this clown inviolved in anything. Deal with issues that matter like hospitals, debt, education and the infrastructure issues. No focus, no clue and NO FUTURE for Quebec. Keep chasing jobs and people away. the world and the rest of Canada is laughing.
  7. Rickie posted on 08/13/2012 09:14 AM
    make sure small businesses do business in French!!!! what is she cracked? what about the small businesses who do MOST of their business outside Quebec? What then? Yah ok...seems like we have a French Hitler growing up right before our eyes...this so isn't going to fly!!!!!
  8. abour posted on 08/13/2012 11:26 AM
    1st off I have to say that it's seems very hard for her to smile as shown in her campaign posters. Looks as if it hurts her to smile.

    2nd how does she expect to police in what language you work in at work. Will the 10th employee get axed? Will companies who employ 10-50 people create 5 differrent Quebec buisness numbers and split them by departments so that no more than 9 people work per department.? No need to bring out the clowns, their already here.
  9. sam posted on 08/13/2012 03:52 PM
    I honestly don't know who could support a woman like this.. yes lets remove more english rights and choices.. yes.. that seems fair.. No it won't cause a backlash.. You know the world is multi-lingual.. except in Quebec..
    Maybe she will put bugs in our homes to ensure we all speak french here too.. perhaps she will soon make it mandatory to trrain our pets in french as well..
    I just wonder where these thoughts and ideas come from in her mind.. This is one woman if I had 1 question I would ask her what color the sky is in her world.
    It's inhumane to live like this.. and each time I hear a story like this it makes me want to speak ENGLISH MORE . and I am french.. lol
  10. murrayl posted on 08/14/2012 08:40 AM
    Stay tuned for the following effort. Keep checking The Suburban Newspaper for info that is bound to appear: "So now Pauline Marois wants to extend Bill 101 to small businesses as well. Why not, Quebec has so much extra money to spend on more social engineering inspectors. You know, after the CSST decision not to communicate with employers in English, if Marois - or any Premier - moves to extend Bill 101, there could not be a better time, or more valid reason, for a tax strike. Since almost 40% of individual revenues collected by Rev Que come from the 21% of Quebecers who are non-Francophones it is time to ask, in Sheila Fraser's words, where is our "value for money?" The Americans had a revolution over "no taxation without representation." In Quebec it should be "no taxation without comprehension." A Fraser Institute report demonstrated that small businesses waste 19 working days a year on government compliance and forms. I guess Marois would like to eliminate a full month. It would only take a few hundred tax strikers to grind the system. And there are lawyers who would defend strikers pro bono."
    1. WILLinMTL posted on 08/16/2012 06:30 PM
      @murrayl You make a lot of good points. How exactly would this be done ? My taxes are deducted from my pay cheque.
      My tax revolt is done by shopping online or cross border shopping in the US, but those amounts are nothing compared to income tax deducted.
      We could also say that federally, we are also getting ripped off. So much money "donated" to foreign countries. Retirement age raised. Government constantly giving in to corporations and stomping on the common workers.
      I like your thinking, but I'm sure it would take more than "a few hundred". And from experience, don't mess with the tax man !!
  11. PQisaJoke posted on 08/14/2012 09:52 AM
    She is laughing at us all
    see...
    http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/mllj8.jpg
    'nuff said
  12. steve posted on 08/14/2012 01:17 PM
    It's the damage her policies can do to the economy and standard of living of Quebec that is the sad thing.Better to live in a french backwater than to embrace a bilingual society.It's the sheeple who vote PQ that pay the biggest price.Yet she sits in her mansion (bubble), never to feel the affect's. Unprecedented ignorance.
  13. Joe posted on 08/14/2012 05:24 PM
    Why are people even givnig ther the time of day. She has no platform. Most of the others are talking about things of importance, health care, budgets, infrastructures, jobs, while all the while she spends 10% of her day on these topics, the rest is spent on the same 35 year old separation idea. People want to work and by alienating people, the PQ with this French only backwards mentality, take us out of the mainstream job markets in the world. Now if she were to reverse this and come up with a solid platform she might have a chance convincing the on the fence French vote, and if she does not well the federalists vote should put Charest back in even though he is not everones first choice
  14. Ian W posted on 08/14/2012 08:17 PM
    It's kind of interesting to read some of these comments and sit here realising that all the best paying jobs in Quebec are held by bilingual or Anglophone people while the Unilingual Francopohones are left with sweeping, pickin berries and pretty mundane employment oppotunities even after graduating University, they end up working for a convenience store or pumping gas. Is that how much the PQ think of their own breed.
  15. Andrea B posted on 08/15/2012 07:41 AM
    How are these restrictive language rights any different from the restrictive religious rights we complain about in certain countries? We are all so politically correct for everyone except ourselves. It is time for anglophone Quebecers to stop this bs and say NO...we count too. After all do we not pay our share of taxes and do our share of work? I have had enough...I will not leave...I have the right to stay and i have the right to speak English. Religious freedom, gender rights and language freedom are one and the same....
  16. Eric posted on 08/15/2012 11:23 AM
    Talk about alienating the Anglo and allophones population. And what about the intelligent Francophones that want to learn English so they can move outside the province or country, other than to France or other French speaking country. International business is conducted in English, no changing that. And what is wrong with knowing the two languages, even a thrid or fourth language. Racists, pure and simple, want to shut out everybody and keep their people imprisoned in this province.
  17. G posted on 08/15/2012 12:15 PM
    Why has this not been brought to the world stage as a human rights issue? One of the biggest problems is that not enough people who are against the linguistic cleansing that is taking place in Quebec are standing up and making noise about it. Where is the mobilization of the Anglo (and Franco supporters) against this law?
    1. Willem B posted on 08/15/2012 03:53 PM
      @G Cast your mind back to 1976 for the answer.

      Nobody outside of Quebec cares.

      Nobody in Canada will do anything about it.

      That's why all the money, jobs, doctors, engineers, etc are leaving.

      Like I did.
    2. E. posted on 08/15/2012 05:46 PM
      @G Sure sounds like fascism to me. Anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, anti-English, it's all the same. Xenophobic, narrow-minded people living in the past.
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  18. Maya posted on 08/15/2012 02:30 PM
    The reason she sited for not taking part in an english-language debate, is because her English is too poor... now she wants to impose the same low-level of English on every francophone and alophone in Quebec? Can't wait to see how Quebec will be competing in the global market in about 10-15 years!!!
  19. BrianL posted on 08/15/2012 02:31 PM
    What is wrong with Mrs. Marois's followers. They are supporting suppression of their own rights. Right now a fracophone can choose to go to a French or an English CEGEP. With the new and improved version of Bill 101 they will lose this right. Is this not like the East Germans years ago when there was a wall, demanding that the wall be strengthened so they could not get out. Notice that when people crave freedom, walls eventually come down.

    Will we see a day when French Quebecs will also demand that walls like Bill 101 come down so they too can be free?
  20. Willem B posted on 08/15/2012 03:51 PM
    They laughed in 1972 when my father told everyone "you watch, soon it will be French-only with English allowed here and there". They laughed.
    ----------
    What they could not take by force in the 60s, they've done by legislation.

    There will be no backlash; there never was before.

    Me? I've left the place I used to call home.

    Sad. It will never change. I thought young Quebecers were smarter than to vote for someone like this. I thought they were interested in jobs, business, health care -- you know, things that actually matter.
    1. Neoback posted on 08/16/2012 11:04 PM
      @Willem B young quebecers are smarter than that... i was one of them. I just hope that there are 2 thing we can do. don
  21. angelo posted on 08/15/2012 06:52 PM
    Lets not forget , Hitler started like this from a small place in Germany. Now its language, then its religion and before you know it, you'll be kicked out of the province because you or your family were not born here. Far fetched, maybe,
  22. WILLinMTL posted on 08/16/2012 06:20 PM
    This PQ party will drive away any business that's left, and will certainly eliminate any and all possibility of having new businesses set up shop in this racist, backward thinking province !
    I have absolutely no clue why anyone would immigrate to Canada and decide to come to Quebec ! Yet people do, English speaking people at that.
    PQ claims to respect the will of the people, yet even though twice now Quebec voted against separation, they can't respect the decision of "Non Merci".
    I, like others here, also can't understand why French people would vote for a party who will limit their freedom of choice, destroy the economy and generally just bring the whole province down.
    English is a must for business, for travel, for entertainment. Time for the PQ to get a clue !
  23. Arch posted on 08/17/2012 12:42 PM
    I blame the previous government under Trudeau for allowing the rights of Anglos in Quebec to be taken away. without a fight. I'm sure glad I left Quebec in 76.Marsh rdirrsf
  24. Molly posted on 08/22/2012 09:02 AM
    The French language mostly taught in Quebec is not even good French so they are not well understood outside the province.
    What a waste of time!
  25. Steve posted on 08/23/2012 01:43 PM
    she's not only restricting the rights of non francophones, shes restricting the rights of francophones!!!!!!! that's what's even worse!!! these people don't even have a choice! she's making ALL of us her slaves and slaves of the french language, which, unless you don't plan on even leaving Quebec, is detrimental to the greater good of Quebec citizens. it's absolutely crazy to me that francophones aren't picking up on this. stop thinking that she's doing you a favor!!! OPEN YOUR EYES
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