🇨🇦 Fined into bankruptcy: the small Montreal college at the forefront of the language battle

A government threatening a college with $30 million in fines over too many students being taught in English is not defending culture, it is flexing state power with all the grace of a bureaucratic sledgehammer. LaSalle was hit after exceeding quota rules by 716 students one year and 1,066 the next, with no transition period and no real dialogue, as reported. Even after the school became compliant, Quebec still kept the noose tight.

This is what happens when political class vanity turns language policy into a punishment machine. The province talks endlessly about rights and inclusion, then moves to crush a school, strand 3,000 students, and jeopardize more than 400 jobs because reality did not fit a legislative spreadsheet. Trudeau’s Canada loves preaching diversity until actual institutional autonomy gets in the way of centralized social engineering. Quebec’s language regime may wear a nationalist costume, but the method is pure managerial authoritarianism: quotas, fines, silence, then court fights. Sovereignty should mean serving your people, not bankrupting them to satisfy an ideological performance.

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