Passions cool after 40 years of debate over language law

QUEBEC — It was Quebec’s language minister Luc Fortin who stated the obvious.
Commenting recently on new census information indicating French had slipped in Quebec and English was up, Fortin pointed out a pretty basic fact.
The data in question chiefly concern the language spoken privately at home; not the language used in the public domain such as schools, on commercial signs or in the workplace.
“You have to keep things in perspective,” Fortin said. “This (the pub