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Specific Directive on the Use of a Language Other than French
Havelock
Preface
An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec (2022, chapter 14) was assented to on June 1, 2022, and amended the Charter of the French Language. The Act imposes on civil administrations, including municipal bodies, the duty to use French in an exemplary manner and exclusively, subject to certain exceptions. The Politique linguistique de l’État (PLE) approved by the government on February 22, 2023, provides general guidelines for exemplary practices.
Like all agencies and bodies concerned, the Municipality of the Township of Havelock must adopt a specific directive and submit it to the Ministère de la Langue française. This directive will replace the Directive of the ministère de la Langue Française regarding the use of a language other than the official language by a municipal body recognized under section 29.1 of the Charter of the French Language, adopted on May 24, 2023.
The Municipality of the Township of Havelock is a body recognized under section 29.1 of the Charter of the French Language. In this capacity, the Municipality may use the options provided in sections 23 to 26 of the Charter of the French Language that regulate the use of another language than French by a body recognized under section 29.1 of the Charter of the French Language.
These sections concern the language of signs, posters, documents, the services they provide, their use of technological means, their internal communications, their communications to other recognized bodies and the language used in their name, notices of meeting, agendas and minutes of deliberative assemblies.
This specific directive identifies other situations in addition to those provided in sections 23 to 26 of the Charter of the French Language. It provides for the possibility of using another language than French in situations that are not covered by its recognition under section 29.1.