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QUEBEC — Even if the government’s response was noncommital, Montrealers who petitioned the National Assembly for bilingual traffic signs where pictograms don’t work are satisfied they made their point and got the government’s attention.

“It’s not a failure,” Côte-St-Luc councillor Ruth Kovac told the Montreal Gazette. “I do think that yes, we brought attention to this. Our MNA felt that it was important enough to sponsor it in the National Assembly.

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“I’m counting on the spirit of openness, global thinking and welcoming people into our province. It doesn’t diminish any other language. I think it just makes it safer.”

Shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday, the MNA who sponsored the petition, D’Arcy McGee’s David Birnbaum, rose in the legislature to read the petition — in French and English — into the record.

As Kovac, Hampstead lawyer Harold Staviss and friends watched from the visitors’ gallery, Birnbaum announced the final tally for signatures was 6,938.