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By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Mille \u00celes riding’s MNA rose in the National Assembly May 23 to warn fellow legislators that the Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois efforts to favour the French language could have a paradoxical effect.<\/p>\n

Francine Charbonneau reminded the provincial parliamentarians that \u201cEnglish school boards are working hard. Students graduating from English high schools are bilingual\u2014sometimes more bilingual than students from French school boards.\u201d<\/p>\n

She noted that Quebec has already added 210 academic staff and $70.7 million to the province’s education budget during the past four years \u201cto improve our youths’ mastery of French.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBesides reading better and writing better, we also have the equipment to go with that,\u201dCharbonneau affirmed. \u201cAcquiring Quebec French [language skills] on the job is what the Laval community wants to see happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

She underscored the growing importance of English in jobs such as software engineering, where English graduates are gaining an advantage because of their better bilingual skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have brighter prospects on the job market,\u201d she concluded. \u201cFor those reasons, Mr. Speaker, I will rise to vote against Bill 14.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charbonneau also emphasized her preference for providing incentives to conduct business in French.<\/p>\n

\u201cPromoting the quality of French instruction in primary schools, encouraging the use of French at work, facilitating the francization of immigrants and promoting the quality of French in the digital era,\u201d are the measures that she advocated.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoercion simply isn’t the best way to get people to want to learn a language and preserve a culture,\u201d she contended. \u201cNeither is stripping away rights. If you’re English, you have less rights than if you’re French. That’s not a very tolerant set of values,\u201d Charbonneau added.<\/p>\n

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