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Many anglos have nowhere else to turn for information but 2MoPaul. Celebrated local paper The Victory stopped publishing in the ’80s. Under Quebec’s latest French language protection law, Bill 96, the city’s own website is no longer allowed to post any English information because Two Mountains doesn’t have official bilingual status.

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

You're talking about protecting language and culture in a thread about a small town relying on one guy to translate the government's website because the law forbids the use of their native language.

French speakers are the majority in Québec. This is like a law forbidding Mandarin from being used in Canada and saying there are 3x as many Mandarin speakers in the world than English speakers and the law is required or else we'll all be speaking Mandarin one day.

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