Emilie Dubois was turned down because a chapter of her dissertation was written in English. FMTNews French
MONTREAL: A French woman seeking permanent residency in Quebec was turned down on grounds her French was not good enough.
But all that wasn’t enough to convince Quebec officials to give her an immigration suitability certificate that is a prerequisite to gaining permanent residency.French is the official language of government, commerce and the courts in Quebec – a former French colony ceded to Britain in 1763. Most recently a backlash ensued over plans to require anyone wanting services in English to prove their ancestral English roots in the province.
One chapter of her doctoral thesis on cellular and molecular biology was written in English because it was a scholarly article published in a scientific journal. But the other four chapters were written in French.
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