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<div class="storyheadline">Proposal will advance French cause, Marois says</div>
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<p>Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois yesterday defended her arty's new citizenship proposal which is being crticized by the Liberals and uebec Solidaire parties because they say it will create two classes of Quebec citizenship. Marois said in the same way Quebec's Charter of the French Language - Bill 101 - helped advance the cause of French by sending immigrants to French schools, so will the new proposal, which says immigrants who fail to develop a working knowledge of French would not be allowed to hold public office, raise funds for a party or petition the National Assembly with a grievance.
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<p>One Pequiste told reporters such a policy - which the PQ proposes to put in place should it take power one day - would be entirely normal. As Taillon MNA Marie Malavoy noted, if a politician in Spain is required to speak Spanish, a Quebec politician should be required to speak French. Trying to take back the hot political identity issue from the Action democratique du Quebec party, Marois said the francophone majority must stop being afraid of appearing intolerant or be willing to have their culture and language take a back seat.
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<p>English Canadians can speak of an "us" that is inclusive but when the PQ does the same, it is accused of intolerance, she said in a speech opening a one-day meeting of the PQ,s council of riding presidents."Tell me by which rhetoric would the Canadian 'us' be inclusive and the Quebec 'us' exclusive?" Marois asked. "In what way is Canadian citizenship more inclusive than Quebec citizenship?"
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<p>The meeting ends today with a news conference from Marois, who also said it's not because she has put the referendum mechanics issue on the backburner that the PQ's quest for sovereignty is over.</p>
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