Editing Official Language Act (Quebec) (section)

== Opposition ==
That English was an official language in Quebec as well was declared on July 19, 1974, by [[McGill University]] law faculty's most expert counsellors, disputing Bill 22. The testifiers were Dean [[F. R. Scott|Frank R. Scott]]; [[John Peters Humphrey]], the chief planner of the [[United Nations]]' [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]];  [[Irwin Cotler]]; and four additional legal teachers:<ref>{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=William|title=English-speaking Quebecers must wake up and defend their rights|url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=9f05bde7-f404-4065-9d97-b1c68fdb264a&p=1|access-date=27 January 2012|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=31 August 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012716/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=9f05bde7-f404-4065-9d97-b1c68fdb264a&p=1|archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>

<blockquote>Section 1, which provides that French is 'the official language of the province of Quebec,' is misleading in that it suggests that English is not also an official language in Quebec, which it is by virtue of Section 133 of the ''[[BNA Act]]'' and the federal ''[[Official Languages Act (Canada)|Official Languages Act]]''.&nbsp;... No legislation in the National Assembly proclaiming French the sole official language in the province can affect these bilingual areas protected by the ''BNA Act''.</blockquote>

[[John Ciaccia]] and [[George Springate]] were suspended from the Liberal caucus for almost two months in 1974 for voting with the Opposition when the Robert Bourassa government passed Bill 22.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-longtime-quebec-liberal-john-ciaccia-dies-at-85-2/ |title=Long-time Quebec Liberal John Ciaccia, who was native affairs minister during Oka Crisis, dies at 85 |date=August 8, 2018 |work=The Globe and Mail |agency=The Canadian Press}}</ref>