A new group aiming to promote French on Montreal’s South Shore was launched yesterday in Longueuil.
Mouvement Montérégie français, a new branch of Mouvement Montréal français, has three main concerns: upholding a French workforce in Quebec’s regions, integrating immigrants into francophone society and Bill 104.
The group contends Montreal’s workforce is increasingly anglophone, which they believe will negatively impact the city’s surrounding regions.
Mouvement Montérégie français is also concerned with the integration of allophone immigrants.
“In the Montérégie, certain sectors receive an ever-growing number of allophone citizens,” the group’s president Michel Gagnon said in a press release. “And a certain number of our elected politicians seem to think offering them English services will contribute to their integration.”
The group was launched in reaction to a Canada Supreme Court decision in October which struck down Bill 104. The law prevented allophone children from transferring from a private English school to a public one.
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Quebecers should learn to teach their children French, instead of limiting other's rights.
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