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A three-year-old court challenge to the signage provisions of Quebec’s French language charter has received another setback, with the province’s Court of Appeal siding with two lower court judgments that the French language in Quebec continues to require protection.

In a unanimous decision filed Nov. 7, the three judges of the appeal court upheld the findings of a Quebec Court judge in 2014 — which was upheld by a Superior Court justice in 2016 — that scuttled an attempt by several local businesses cited for violations to Bill 101 to overturn provisions of the language charter.

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In the 2014 trial, lawyer Brent Tyler attempted to prove that French is no longer vulnerable in Quebec and thus the limits the French-language charter places on freedom of expression cannot be justified. The court heard from expert witnesses and the Quebec government, both of whom gave diametrically opposed assessments of the state of the French language in province.