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The Quebec Liberal Party is preparing to release its plan to protect the French language ahead of the provincial election scheduled for this fall.
Liberal leader Charles Milliard will offer details at a news conference this afternoon at the bookstore La Librairie de Verdun in Montreal.
“The plan we will be proposing will take into account that everybody in Quebec wants French to be strong, but at the same time we can have a different discourse in the public about the fact that all Quebecers should feel at home,” Milliard told journalists during the party’s general council in Sherbrooke, Que., earlier this month.
Recent polls show the Liberals trail behind the Parti Québécois and the Coalition Avenir Québec among francophone voters.
Milliard’s popularity among Anglos was also shaken when he spoke in favour of renewing the notwithstanding clause in Bill 96 to shield it from court challenges.
His stance caused a stir within his caucus and among the anglophone community. He then said he would amend Bill 96 and then determine whether the use of the clause was still necessary.
The provincial election is scheduled for Oct. 5.
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