Josh Freed: Bill 101 badly hurt us, but it also accidentally saved Canada

Bill 101 — the most loaded term in the anglo-Quebec vocabulary, along with its cousin “referendum.”
Bill 101 turns 40 this summer, but few anglos will be singing Bonne Fête and many will mourn.
For decades the law aggravated, infuriated, exhausted and entertained us with its legal lunacies. Anglos resent and regret it, yet so do some sovereignists — because Bill 101 brought unpredictable consequences, even to those who created it.
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