Quebec’s French rules are scaring health workers away from English, federal watchdog warns

Confused by Quebec’s tougher French rules, health-care workers are avoiding English, threatening access to care for anglophone Quebecers, the federal language commissioner says. “The strengthening of the Charter of the French Language (through Bill 96) and the resulting guidelines have caused some confusion around enforcement of the right to be served in English in the health-care, business and community sectors,” Raymond Théberge said Tuesday. “For example, some h