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TUITION FEE HIKES WILL HARM ENGLISH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY AND CONTRIBUTE TO BRAIN DRAIN

It has been a busy time since my last column following our Annual General Meeting in June. And as the summer turned to fall, and the House of Commons and National Assembly reconvened, the QCGN is gearing up for a busy political season. As I wrote in a recent commentary in The Montreal Gazette, there are several issues on the political agenda of concern to the English-speaking community. These include legislation on health and social services (Bill 15) and education governance (Bill 23) as well as the looming action plan on the French language to be presented by language minister Jean-François Roberge in mid-November. 

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RENEWED DETERMINATION IN BATTLE FOR RIGHTS AND RESPECT

After decades of relative linguistic peace, English-speaking Quebec has reached a momentous crossroad. Not since the introduction of Bill 101 in 1977 have English-speaking Quebecers been required to so vigorously defend our contributions to Quebec society, the institutions we have built and indeed our very place in this province. That was among my messages in a commentary published in The Montreal Gazette on June 15.

For more than a year now, the English-speaking community of Quebec has been galvanized as it had not been for a very long time.

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