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<div class=""><h1>Anglo-rights activist calls French language charter 'ethnocentric'</h1></div>
<h3 class="">Advocacy groups want Montreal to become bilingual city</h3>
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Apr 29, 2013 9:48 AM ET
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<p>Anglophone-rights activists spoke out against tougher language laws
this weekend at a conference organized by CRITIQ, a group advocating for
English speakers in the province. "Bill 101 is fundamentally ethnocentric,” said Brent Tyler, a civil rights lawyer.</p>
<p>“It presumes that language policy is a zero-sum game, that whatever
space is given to other languages takes away somehow from the French
language.”</p><blockquote class=""><strong>'We are not second-class citizens and we never have been.'</strong><em>—Julius Grey, civil rights lawyer.</em></blockquote><p>Hundreds of people attended the conference.</p>
<p>Much of the focus was on the Parti Québécois government and Bill 14,
which proposes amendments to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language.</p>
<p>Many in the audience applauded when panellists criticized the new
language bill, but they didn't agree with one speaker, civil rights
lawyer Julius Grey who defended the original language law, Bill 101.</p>
<p>“We are not second-class citizens and we never have been,” Grey said.</p>
<p>Audience member Irwin Rapoport said language laws in Quebec are already too strict.</p>
<p>“Say ‘no’ to Bill 101. Say ‘no’ to the violation of rights and freedoms,” he said.</p>
<p>CRITIQ also wants Montreal to be officially recognized as a bilingual city.</p>
<p>Audience members were asked to appeal to their local councillors to push for the change.</p><p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/04/29/montreal-anglo-bill-101-ethnocentric.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/04/29/montreal-anglo-bill-101-ethnocentric.html</a><br>
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