Following demonstrations final weekend in Montreal the place hundreds walked via the downtown core in protest of Quebec's French-language legal guidelines, college students within the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) neighborhood of Kahnawake led a stroll of protest Saturday.
A number of dozen college students, former college students and supporters from the neighborhood walked alongside Freeway 132 and onto the Mercier Bridge with indicators denouncing Invoice 96.
Teiotsatonteh Diabo was one of many organizers of the protest. She graduated from Kahnawake Survival Faculty two years in the past and attended her brother's commencement on Friday.
She additionally has a sister in Grade 9, and they're all involved that requiring extra French in school will deter college students from pursuing post-secondary schooling.
"They're frightened that CEGEP goes to be close to unimaginable with the brand new French programs that they are going to implement," stated Diabo, who stated only a few residents in Kahnawake can communicate or perceive French fluently.
"Numerous the youthful ones are like, we do not know if we wish to go to CEGEP now," she stated.
The scholars shall be joined by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake and different neighborhood members who've been vocal about their opposition to Invoice-96.
Minister Answerable for the French Language Simon Jolin-Barrette wrote the invoice and instructed CTV Information after the invoice was first introduced that it was at all times prime of thoughts to not trigger divisions, however simply to guard the French language.
"Once I wrote that invoice, it was at all times on my thoughts to not trigger division and to not take out rights for the English communities and the Aboriginal individuals additionally," he stated. "It is solely about defending French as a result of we see that French is in decline."
Diabo defined that the majority college students in Kahnawake develop up with a aim of studying their mother-tongue Kanien'kéha (Mohawk language) along with English. Strain to study French on prime of the 2 is one thing that she feels will trigger pointless stress.
"Are you able to think about us having to catch up in French as properly?" stated Diabo.
Although Invoice 96 wouldn't apply on the territory of Kahnawake, neighborhood members from the neighborhood throughout the Mercier Bridge from the Island of Montreal depart for well being companies, grocery buying, faculty, work and different causes.
"You'll be able to't count on us to impulsively study French," stated Diabo.
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