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Earlier this week, Quebec French Language Minister Jean-François Roberge said there were “huge misunderstandings” surrounding his directive on the use of languages other than French in the health care system.
He stressed that health and social services would remain “accessible for the English-speaking community, no questions asked.”
But lawyer and political advisor Eric Maldoff doesn’t buy it.
“This is not a friendly, good-faith, accidental matter. This is deliberate, conscientious — they do wanna wipe English off the map as a public, as a legitimate language in Quebec,” he told Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein in this latest episode of The Corner Booth.
Maldoff was joined by Sylvia Martin-Laforge, director general of the Quebec Community Groups Network, who said the messaging she’s received from Quebec officials has not assuaged her concerns.
“Either the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing or there’s serious obfuscation here about their intentions around the English-speaking community,” she said.
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