15 June 2022

Legal experts fact-check Quebec ad campaign that aims to correct 'falsehoods' on controversial language law

 

Lawyers say government ad published this week contains falsehoods of its own

Legal experts fact-check Quebec ad campaign that aims to correct 'falsehoods' on controversial language law | CBC News

Legal experts are slamming a full-page ad from the CAQ government running in both French and English newspapers this week that purports to correct "falsehoods" circulating about the new law to protect the French language, commonly know as Bill 96.

"The ad campaign is misleading," constitutional lawyer Julius Grey told CBC in an interview.

Frédéric Bérard, co-director of the National Observatory on Language Rights, part of the Public Law Research Centre at Université de Montréal, was less diplomatic.

"It's bullshit over bullshit. That's what it is. I mean, it's lying to people with public money," Bérard told CBC.

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