Quebec gov't tables bill to mandate French-language content discoverability on digital platforms

Quebec’s Minister of Culture and Communications Mathieu Lacombe on Wednesday tabled in the Quebec National Assembly Bill 109, An Act to affirm Québec’s cultural sovereignty and to enact an Act respecting the discoverability of Francophone cultural content in the digital environment. Minister Lacombe also proposed introducing in Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms “a right of access to cultural content of original Francophone expression”, according to an English translation of a Quebec government press release. This introduction of a right to discoverability and access to French-language content in the Charter “would serve to promote the presence, visibility and recommendation of Francophone cultural content in the...