Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet has sent a letter, written in both French and English, to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to try to explain Quebec’s new language law to Americans.
Blanchet delivered his letter to the U.S. ambassador Tuesday evening at a gathering in Ottawa. In it, he “saluted” Blinken’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war and his “remarkable mastery of the French language,” before defending the need for Quebec to tighten its rules on commercial signage.
The letter stated “…as the only French jurisdiction in North America, Quebec has a duty to ensure the continued existence of the French language on the continent
