December 12, 2023
Patients committee getting complaints about French-only meetings at bilingual Montreal hospital
The patients committee at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) says its members are upset that board meetings are being conducted exclusively in French. Some Anglophones are thus being excluded from the institutions that are supposed to serve the English-speaking community. “The board of directors, and the MUHC in general, is under fairly intense pressure and scrutiny to abide by Bill 96,” says MUHC chair Ingrid Kovitch. The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), questions the policy. “They have the bilingual status, so let’s use it,” says Eva Ludvig, QCGN president.