Anglo rights group denounces city’s French-language rules

The English-rights group TALQ wants the next Montreal administration to dispense with its recently released rules in its guidebook on how city employees should deal with the English-speaking public under Quebec’s language law Bill 96, as well as how to distribute bilingual pamphlets and report violations of Bill 96.

The guidebook includes the instruction to initially speak in French with an individual even if he or she qualified for service in English, such as what Bill 96 calls “historic anglophones,” as well as indigenous people and immigrants who have been in Quebec less than six month.