CAQ ready to strike down bill 14

Posted By: Angelica Montgomery · 3/8/2013 1:05:00 PM

The CAQ is confirming a CJAD exclusive, that it will oppose major parts of the legislation.

François Legault says his party's ready to vote against the PQ's language bill 14 if major changes are not made.

In particular, the CAQ leader says its against revoking the bilingual status of municipalities without the consent of their elected councils.

He says only 90 municipalities out of 1, 100 have this status, touching only 400 000 people out of 8 million. "Let's not deliberately, like the PQ perhaps wants, launch a useless fight," he says.

Legault also says he's against imposing new language obligations on small businesses for now, but he says this may be needed in the future.

The government should first introduce more incentives for these companies, and follow their progress. "After that, if there is not improvement, we should not exclude more constraints," he says.

François Legault also wants Francophone military families to maintain their exception that allows them to go to English school.

"If changes are not accepted on the major points, we will vote against, but we want to vote for the project."

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  1. merrygoround posted on 03/08/2013 01:21 PM
    5 steps forward and 3 steps backward still sees forward motion in the bid to rid Quebec of anglo presence.

    All our provincial governments have done this. Have we ever had a real provincial goverment that was not, in reality, trying to (albeit slowly) eliminate the anglo presence?
  2. IMO posted on 03/08/2013 01:37 PM
    The heading should be "CAQ ready to strike parts of bill 14" They should be striking it down in its entirety. Seperatists in sheeps clothing.
  3. Umaga posted on 03/08/2013 01:45 PM
    The headline should read CAQ ready to support Bill 14 . Legault points out 3 areas he would like to get compromises on , and then says " but we want to vote for the project " .
    He says new language obligations on small business " may be needed in the future " .
    He's smart enough to know that any proposal to weaken Quebec's language laws is political suicide .
  4. superlitebeer posted on 03/08/2013 04:36 PM
    Its nice to see that not everyone is totally nuts in the asylum... a little harsh, but one cannot help to wonder how a minority government could let itself be hijacked by a handful of rednecks. I could go on and on, how political parties use every means at their disposal to capture the hearts and minds of their electorate. Or to easily deceive the electorate altogether , like when a certain number of ballot boxes, (from the 95 referendum ) were never opened and then destroyed with no objection from the government of the day. History should be used as a measuring stick to see how far we have evolved and not forgotten,or we will be victims of scrupulous political parties, who will always need an electorate to manipulate and subjugate . In this multimedia ever shrinking world, how could any political party imagine that they could restrict any individual from expanding their horizons, in any form whatsoever. Time for these dinosaurs to take a step back and let the youth of today reach for the stars.
  5. Le Québécois posted on 03/08/2013 05:46 PM
    "but we want to vote for the project."

    Now you know his true colors... :)
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