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Originally Posted by AndrewGS
I always thought the signs in Quebec and adjacent provinces had to be in both French and English. |
Not under the Charter of the French Language in Québec. Under the Charter of the French Language, virtually everything allowable under law in Québec has to be in French - no English allowed. If it has to be bilingual, then French has to predominate over English - for example, on a billboard, the English text can not be bigger than the French text. It spills itself over in other ways. Video games sold in Québec, for example, have to include French instructions - no English instructions allowed.
Outside of Québec, if you want a job in the public sector then you have to be fluent in French and English. If a province has French has a secondary language alongside English (such as New Brunswick, the only bilingual province in Canada), then signs and government services have to be in both French and English. Other than that, English still predominates, except in goverment where you are allowed to have services in either French or English.
Complicated, eh?