Bill 178
A few days after the Supreme Court of Canada delivered its ruling in the case of Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General), which approved multilingual commercial expression, the Quebec Liberal Party government of premier Robert Bourassa amended Bill 101 with Bill 178, maintaining French as the only language on outdoor "public signs, posters and commercial advertising" and within shopping centres and the public transit system. The only exceptions were "foreign-language" signs indoors, subject to the approval by the Office de la langue française, and advertisements carried in non-French media, such as The Montreal Gazette.
To supercede the Supreme Court’s ruling, Bourassa invoked the notwithstanding clause of the Quebec and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In June 1993, the Liberals changed the Charter of the French Language again with Bill 86, which allowed bilingual outdoor signs provided French was predominant.[1]
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