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Quebec’s people are in transformation; we are freeing ourselves of past travails. Our culture is strong and dynamic. To advance it, we need not weaken or exclude others. By strengthening and including others, we would not be weakened. We tread now a truly different road of social justice and openness, not merely of tolerance.

Our provincial government has long maintained that our francophone nation is threatened with assimilation into the larger Anglo-American culture. It has adopted several countervailing laws and policies, including the Charter of the French Language (Bill 101), to strengthen the French language’s place in Quebec’s Visage linguistique.

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InFord v. Quebec (Attorney-General), the Supreme Court of Canada described the Visage as an important space — cognitive, physical, social and philosophical — wherein a society’s culture, values and world-view are expressed freely. It is a shared space, not the majority’s monopoly;within it, the majority’s cultural predominance must be justified and minorities flourish minimally impaired.