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Montreal’s largest borough said Tuesday it will comply with requests made by Quebec’s language watchdog to ensure services are provided in French, but questioned the amount of resources required to heed regulations specified by the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF).

The suggestions include changing the mayor’s and councillors’ business cards to French only from the current bilingual ones, ensuring all posters and road signs are in French and that the keyboards for all computers, smartphones and tablets can be used in French.

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“We are going to comply with Bill 101,” said Annalisa Harris, chief of staff to Sue Montgomery, mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. “The OQLF have suggestions, including our business cards, and we will comply with that. It’s more about the resources spent complying with this.”

As an example, Harris noted she spent an hour in hour in discussions with the borough’s services on how to comply with Bill 101, an action that would have to be carried out repeatedly in offices throughout a borough with more than 700 staff members. She said all borough services are available in French.