Doctors want to be excused from Bill 96

Bill 96 would require that health care be delivered only in French to newcomers after only six months.

A group of doctors and other social services professionals are asking to be excluded because of the impossibility of explaining health issues to newcomers who don’t know any French (and, it isn’t spelled out, might well be able to manage in English). But the Jolin‑Barrette ministry is determined not to budge.

How do you punish a doctor who switches to English to give someone a terminal diagnosis or explain to someone that their kid is gravely ill, if they are not yet able to grasp complex explanations in French?

In other Bill 96 news, First Nations are concerned that the new educational rules will cause their students to fail.