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The Parti Québécois caucus is talking again about a need to counter the “rapid anglicization” of Montreal, as well as Laval and the Montérégie.

The party says it’s challenging the Coalition Avenir Québec government of Premier François Legault to strengthen Bill 101 on the use of language in the workplace, recalling that the CAQ was against such action when it was in opposition from 2012 to 2014.

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“It’s a little hint of colonialism” to want everyone to speak English in the workplace as soon as one person doesn’t speak French, said the PQ’s interim leader, Pascal Bérubé, at a news conference on Friday following a pre-session caucus for PQ MNAs in Sherbrooke.

“Knowledge of English, when it isn’t necessary … must be denounced,” he added.

The PQ plans to table a bill that would require employers to demonstrate that knowledge of a second language is necessary to accomplish the tasks associated with a job and to be involved in the workplace. The party is recycling a piece of legislation it already tabled in 2017.