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Quebec uses eligibility certificates to restrict English services
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- Quebec government uses English-school eligibility certificates to limit access to English-language services.
- Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says certificates give an objective definition of historic anglophones.
- English school boards urged anglophone parents to obtain certificates before a possible PQ-led expansion of Bill 101 to CEGEPs.
- A judge ordered bilingual election mailings after a lawsuit claimed French-only mailings would disenfranchise anglophone seniors.