Robert Libman: Liberals are attempting a high-wire act with talk of Quebec constitution

The Liberals are trying to pull off the precarious balancing act of appealing to francophone voters, with whom their support is mired in single digits, while charming their anglophone community supporters. Their stunt involves devising a Quebec constitution, in which the French Language Charter (Bill 101) would be enshrined, reinforcing French as the common language to be promoted and protected. However, they would first eliminate some of the irritants in Bill 101 that were recently added via Bill 96, and promise to guarantee the rights of anglophones to services in English and to limit the use of the notwithstanding clause. Read More