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Weekly survey: Quebec’s new music policy for government buildings and phone lines

Celine Dion. Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot/CP Images

The Quebec ministry of culture was put on hold with another government department and was “shocked” to hear—and that’s a quote: “shocked”—to hear someone singing in English. Actually, the word she used was “warbling.”

So Culture Ministry Nathalie Roy declared that 90% of all music used in provincial buildings be sung in French immediately. The other 10% can be in English and Indigenous languages.

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