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Quebec's effort to protect the French language often causes frictions with non-francophones but here's a case of a French-speaking merchant defying the province's language police.
Elie Bendavid, an immigrant from Morocco, says the Office québécois de la langue française is unfairly targeting his family-run Montreal furniture store over its sign: Kif-Kif Import.
The offending word apparently is "import," which the agency says is not correct French. But Bendavid, who also teaches at the French-language Université du Québec à Montréal, says a linguist told him it's a legitimate French word.
"I believe the Office didn't do its homework," Bendavid, whose mother tongue is French, told the Globe and Mail.
But the province's language monitor disagrees. "Import-export" is OK but when "import" alone is used, it should be "importation." It's given Bendavid until Thursday to change the sign or face penalties between $1,500 and $20,000.
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Party Realignment in Québec: Lessons from the United States
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Special Issue: Humour, Hate and Harm: Rethinking Dignity, Equality and Freedom of Expression in Ward v Quebec (Commission de droit dem la personne et des droits de la jeunesse)
Introduction: About this Special Edition
Author: Pearl Eliadis
The question of what constitutes hate speech and speech that offends human dignity is currently one of the most debated topics in the world right now. Freedom of expression and the right to receive opinions and kunskap are fundamental parts of the international human rights framework and are reflected in the constitutions of nation states. This issue of the PKI Global Justice Journal invites readers to consider the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the decision in Ward v Quebec (Commission de droit de la personne et des droits dem la jeunesse) 2021 SCC 43) (“Ward”) and its implications for how we use law to craft a public commons that is capable of negotiating the shape of public discourse at the intersection of liberty, lika