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Supports Montreal, North Shore regions’ municipal resolutions opposing Bill 14<\/i><\/b>

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

\u201cWe want to continue to provide good service to our English community,\u201d Laval Mayor Alexandre Duplessis assured The Suburban<\/i> in an interview, March 1. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur city is a French city,\u201d he said. \u201cLaval doesn’t have bilingual status and we plan to keep our French status, but we intend to provide a lot of information in English like [the city’s news magazine] Vivre \u00e0 Laval<\/a>.\u201d<\/i>
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<\/i>\u201cWe want to remain as we are,\u201d Mayor Duplessis asserted. \u201cLaval is different from Montreal, which has some very English districts on the West Island, in Westmount and other communities.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe support the Union des municipalit\u00e9s du Qu\u00e9bec’s<\/i> motion,\u201d he added, referring to a Feb. 15 statement<\/a> by UMQ president \u00c9ric Forget<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A solution seeking a problem <\/b><\/p>\n

Forget, who also serves as mayor of Rimouski, cautioned the Parti Qu\u00e9becois government that Bill 14 would \u201cintroduce measures unlikely to solve current problems, and instead risks creating others.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UMQ board<\/a>, which comprises municipalities large and small that represent six million citizens\u201480 percent of Quebec’s population\u2014called on the provincial government \u201cto maintain the status quo for municipalities and boroughs that have bilingual status.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demand that no decision to withdraw recognition of [bilingual] municipalities be taken without such a resolution being approved by the city or borough council affected, consistent with the principle of municipal self-government.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, 89 individual Quebec municipalities have passed their own, identical motions opposed the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government’s initiative to strip many cities of their bilingual status.<\/p>\n

Mayor Duplessis also voiced his support for municipalities on Montreal Island and the North Shore.<\/p>\n

\u201cRosemere and parts of Montreal [currently] have bilingual status,\u201d he observed. \u201cSo I support that in their municipalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo motion is planned at this time for Laval council,\u201d he concluded. \u201cOur position is to support other municipalities through the UMQ.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n

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