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Chris Selley: Quebec cannot afford this anti-anglo decadence

I’m not sure I’ve seen a Quebec leader quite so bluntly say he cares what language you speak on your own time

Among several live linguistic issues in the ongoing Quebec election campaign, the one that seemed to make the biggest dent in anglophone media in recent days was Élections Québec’s announcement that it would only distribute printed election materials, including voter information cards, in French. This is in deference to Bill 96, Quebec’s latest decadent attack on minority-language rights. Among other great democratic feats, the law divides Quebec’s anglophones into those with “acquired rights” to English-language services who have roots in the province, and more recent arrivals who have no language rights.

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Quick tangent here: Radio-Canada reported Friday that sales in adult diapers now exceed sales in baby diapers in Quebec. Twenty years ago, there were 36 per cent more births than deaths in Quebec, according to official government statistics. In 2024, there were three per cent more deaths than births. Does that sound like a society that can afford to pick and choose immigrants?

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