{"id":934379,"date":"2026-10-15T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934379\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:00:08","slug":"opinion-how-pspps-plan-for-cegeps-hurts-francophones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934379\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: How PSPP&#8217;s plan for CEGEPs hurts francophones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois prepares to assume power, the question now for premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is whether his minority government will be able to garner sufficient opposition support to deliver on some of his key promises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among these is his pledge to <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/bill-101-french-language-charter-cegeps-parti-quebecois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">extend the French-language rules of Bill 101<\/a> to CEGEPs \u2014 a proposal that should raise alarm not only in anglophone and allophone communities, but among francophones too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For one thing, in a cruel twist, it\u2019s not a big stretch to say PSPP\u2019s plan would deny many fellow francophones the kind of opportunity and privilege he himself enjoyed as a post-secondary student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois prepares to assume power, the question now for premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,320411,245524,295,230663,120789,222207,66,1062],"class_list":["post-934379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cegeps","tag-education-policy","tag-environment","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-elections","tag-quebec-language-policy","tag-science","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}