Some anglophone groups refused to meet with Quebec’s language minister. Here’s why
The QCGN and Director General Sylvia Martin-Laforge showed “a lot of chutzpah” by turning down a meeting with Quebec French Language Minister Jean-François Roberge to discuss directives around language in health services, says Andrew Caddell, president of the Task Force on Linguistic Policy. “Why sit down,” he asks, “when it’s going to be another one of those consultations like Concordia and McGill, where basically they (the government) are telling them what the conditions will be rather than holding a genuine consultation?”