Mr. Speaker, the new president of Alliance Quebec is contemplating court challenges which seem pointless to us and are probably doomed to fail anyway because, for one thing, under section 59 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the National Assembly or the Government of Quebec may limit access to English-speaking schools to preserve French.
Also, in a 1988 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a policy of making the French language predominant on commercial signs was justified. The president of Alliance Quebec would be much better off working together with all Quebeckers, both French- and English-speaking.