Hanes: Being a Quebec anglo means having to say ‘are you kidding me?’

Sanity prevailed in latest language flap, but constant vigilance is needed on anglo rights.

Quebec’s latest language flap was mercifully short-lived.

One day after French language commissioner Benoît Dubreuil issued a report recommending the province reduce access to English content on government websites to ensure the content is available only to Quebecers with the “right” to see it under Bill 96, Minister of the French Language Jean-François Roberge said that’s not in the cards.

“We have no intention of having some kind of password or identification mechanism,” Roberge said after the release of the report last week. “We’ll keep what I would call the good-faith mechanism that we currently use.”

But it’s not simply a matter of “all’s well that ends well.”