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Oops! Illegally accessed the Quebec National Assembly mobile website in English by accident. Do I turn myself in to the OQLF? #qcpoli #assnat #polqc 
TIL that if I were still working as a journalist, I wouldn't be allowed to access, read and quote the English version of #Bill96 via the National Assembly website. #catch96 #qcpoli #assnat
1/n I was born in Quebec to English-speaking parents, raised here in English, and went to school here in English. I have lived all my life here, and English has always been the language I use most often at home. And yet … #Bill96 #qcanglos
2/n … under the Quebec language law, Bill 101, as amended last year by Bill 96, I am not what is familiarly known as a “historic Quebec anglophone,” with the legal right to access certain provincial and municipal services in English. #Bill96 #qcanglos
3/n That’s because I don’t hold a “certificate of eligibility” to attend English school, which was introduced by Bill 101 in the late 1970s, after I’d completed my education. And I can’t get one now; … #qcanglos #Bill96
4/n … under the law, the certificate is issued only to “a child,” at the request of a parent. Many Quebec anglophones over 50 are in a similar situation. And so they are denied legal access to some services in their first Canadian official language, … #qcanglos #Bill96
5/5 … including the English texts of laws via the National Assembly’s website, such as Bills 101 and 96. #qcanglos #Bill96
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