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Pros And Cons Of The Parti Québécois

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Montreal, 28th August. A new controversial bill proposed by the sovereigntistParti Quebecois ‘revives’ tensions between English and French-speakers in the Canadian province Quebec.
Since the Parti Québécois, that advocates for national sovereignty for the province Quebec, came to power a ’language war’ has been going on. For the political party of René Lévesque was in a new language law in 1976 a high priority. Therefore Camille Laurin, the Minister of Cultural Development, proposed Bill 101 in 1977. The bill defined French, ‘’ the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of Quebec and framing fundamental language rights’’.
The majority government of the Parti Québécois created nuisances and controversies in the

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