Canadian Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser appeared at the English Montreal School Board’s Lauren Hill Academy last week, to speak about his job ensuring minority language rights federally across the country and be interviewed by students on the school’s bilingual Anglais-French Show, on LHA Radio: The Voice
But judging from the one question he received from the high school audience in St. Laurent last Wednesday, the primary thought was about Quebec’s language laws.
Before he spoke to the students, The Suburban asked Fraser about the proposed language law amendment Bill 14, specifically about possible new search and seizure powers to be given to the Office québécois de la langue française and the proposed change of terminology of “ethnic minorities” in Quebec to “cultural communities,” the latter of which does not have any international or national legal protection.
But Fraser’s focus was on bilingual municipalities. The proposed law could remove the bilingual status of municipalities if it is determined that their English-speaking mother tongue population is below 50 percent. A vote on the bill is expected in the near future.

See: The Suburban

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