Importance of language issue among Montréal residents for provincial election 2022
The Quebec general election was held on October 3, 2022 in Canada, to elect the 125 members of the 43rd legislature to the Quebec National Assembly. When asked a month before the election, 18 percent of residents of Montreal and Laval (a suburb of Montreal) considered language and Bill 96 to be the main issue in the campaign. The issue was most important to those whose mother tongue was English (32 percent).
Bill 96 is an act relating to the official language of Quebec, which came into effect in 2022, and aims to make French the only official and common language in Quebec.
Bill 96 is an act relating to the official language of Quebec, which came into effect in 2022, and aims to make French the only official and common language in Quebec.
