Quebec's Double Take

From the CBC:

“French citizen's bid to immigrate to Quebec moving forward — after spat over her thesis”

A French citizen who was told her immigration application to Quebec was rejected because one chapter of her PhD thesis was in English has been told her application will move forward after all.  Émilie Dubois applied to come to the province after completing a PhD at French-language Laval University in Quebec City.  In a letter sent to Dubois earlier this year, the Immigration Ministry said the 31-year-old French native had not demonstrated she had the level of French required to receive a Quebec selection certificate, the first step toward permanent residency, under the province's experience program. "You did not complete program of study in Quebec entirely in French, including the dissertation or thesis," the letter read. Speaking to Radio-Canada, Dubois noted she has "a diploma from a francophone university" and that she did "all of my studies in French." One of the five chapters of her thesis on cellular and molecular biology was written in English because it was a scholarly article published in a scientific journal. The rest of her studies were in French, including the seminars and thesis defence.  After Radio-Canada broke the story Thursday, Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette said the situation made no sense, and asked officials to reopen Dubois' file. She was later informed she would receive the certificate.

^ While it is good that Quebec is now going to allow the French citizen to immigrate to Quebec the whole situation should have and could have been avoided in the first place. This one case shows how completely messed-up and arrogant Government Officials in Quebec are in their “quest” to eradicate English from their Province. They are becoming more like the Metropolitan French and not like the Canadians they are. English is the International Language of the world and anyone who does not know and use it has limitations on them. While I completely agree that French is an important language (in Quebec and the rest of Canada) the fact about English can not be over-looked. If it makes the French-speaking Canadians feel better they can require people who use English to use American-English rather than Canadian-English or British-English. ^

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/french-citizen-immigration-1.5354310