The legal problems and the spontaneous barrage of ridicule from English-Canadians and Americans reduced the holy crusade for the French language in Quebec to a farce. The result is measures like Bill 21 that are gestures to popular sentiment but apart from a few test cases, won’t achieve much. It is part of the endless campaign of the government of Quebec to pander to atheistic and anti-theistic opinion in Quebec. In that way, the Church was essential to the modernization of Quebec, as it had been to its survival as a French jurisdiction. And Quebec should have outgrown nonsense like Bill 21 long ago.

Source: National Post May 03, 2019 09:56 UTC