In our office, we're all English, so how are we going to make them understand a contract that's only in French? It is just ludicrous, she said. It's absurd that for our municipality, where 99 per cent of the population has English as their language, we can't produce contracts with suppliers in our municipality in English, said Roberts-Keats. Quebec English speakers brace as major provisions of language law come into effect (new window).The challenge was filed in Superior Court.ĭale Roberts-Keats, mayor of Bonne-Espérance - a municipality on the Lower North Shore about 60 kilometres from the Labrador border with fewer than 700 residents - says the new law is unreasonable.
The mayors say they are concerned about communications, illegal searches and seizures, government grants and the obligation, set out in the law, to discipline public employees who break the rules by working in English. The Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec (new window), amends several pieces of Quebec legislation, including the Charter of the French Language, making it more difficult to receive services in English. All of the cities and towns taking part in the challenge, including Côte Saint-Luc, Beaconsfield, Dorval, Kirkland, Montreal West and Westmount have bilingual status.
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