Quebec's latest attempt to force habitants to speak French reaches a repressive level. People who can't speak French will be cut off, after 6 months, from medical care, from government services, and from their legal rights.

Those who manage to speak French, but not well, will suffer the forms of mistreatment that were the reason for the policy of offering them interpreters.

As for the "notwithstanding" loophole, that should be eliminated from the Constitution of Canada.